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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. of America v.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. We can do better!

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? The concept and mechanisms of licensing are introduced to people who would not previously consider copyrighting their works, and thus possibly commodify their creations. iron cage of copyright??? No wonder that it is an arcane matter for the average content creator ???

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? Sarah Davies, FreedomforIP. Get tech saavy.

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So You Think You Can Blog? Guidelines For New Bloggers

Care2

Are you serving as a proofreader, or will you also be making content suggestions? What types of comments will you consider over the line and what kind of content would you consider deleting? Respect copyright laws by quoting and linking to the full text and only use images that you have permission to use (i.e. Time Management.

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How to Implement a Data-Driven Approach to Fundraising

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Bre Alexander, Content Marketing Manager at iWave. Old ways and old systems led to the National Aquarium re-examine its approach to fundraising. Here’s how the organization updated its legacy systems, resulting in better, more robust fundraising. Photo copyright: The National Aquarium. The Old Ways.

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