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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 In this courageous guest post, Adrienne Berney, a Collections Care Trainer who works primarily with history museums, gives us an insider’s guide to these issues. Digitization can help offer safe access to collections.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Legal Counsel About Using Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What do we need to understand about copyrighted material and our content strategy? Find out whether organization has any significant history of regulatory action. Additional Resources: Influencing Public Policy in the Digital Age by the Alliance of Justice. Find out whether the organization has made a 501 h election.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I think the publishing industry has a long and proud history of being willing to help people with disabilities, and authors are equally willing to support this as well. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. Roy Blount Jr. in his New York Times essay Kindle Swindle? The Textbook problem.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take photos with your digital camera and share them on your web site or blog and ideally, in Flickr. the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. Versioning by saving a history of changes (who and when) that can be viewed and compared.

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A. Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Social media, interactive digital tools, are very inexpensive, and when used well are great ways to enhance, deepen and strengthen those relationships. Make publishing history; post your contribution to our interactive epilogue. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com So don’t just read Momentum. All rights reserved.

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What Nonprofit Digital Marketers Need To Watch in 2024

Whole Whale

Recent NY Times copyright lawsuit will be watched closely. 2024 will set a record for the most democratic elections in history. – Whole Whale Regulations may come for AI and change how these tools evolve but won’t put the genie back in the bottle thanks to open source models. Nonprofit AI policy and practice adoption.

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