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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. It’s important that you have some claim to your data collection, rather than having these databases used and rebranded by other resellers without permission. So, let me end where we began. The first step, though?

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s take a look at a few examples: Major Gifts Officer: A new platform called First Draft developed by Gravyty uses AI to identify and draft emails to prospects in an organization’s database. Robot lawyers probably won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or write elegant legal briefs just yet.

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Fundraising When Money Is Tight

NTEN

And you can’t stop building your donor database. If we have anything more than the most rudimentary of databases, we know how long our donors have been giving to us, how much they’ve given, and how frequently. Copyright © 2009 by Mal Warwick. In fact, it’s a time for caution and cost-cutting. . You can’t not raise funds.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Better Together: Collaboration and.

ASU Lodestar Center

If youre completely lost, the Nonprofit Collaboration Database is a great place to start. Its packed with helpful information, as well as a searchable database of nonprofits who are looking for partners. Plenty of resources are appearing to help guide and promote collaboration.