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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

.orgSource

Our agenda delivers strategies you can put into practice immediately, along with the creative vision leaders need to succeed in digital markets. or the digital revolution. He is also President and Managing Director of Digital Strategy for.orgSource , and my co-author of the Association 4.0 Navigate Industry 4.0 leadership.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. copyright law). copyright law). In September 2011, the Authors Guild sued the HathiTrust, alleging massive copyright violations. In Authors Guild v.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S., Benetech is working on a new program that will serve these students who are not qualified under the copyright exemption.

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Getting Close to a Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. If it indeed is simply a place where any authorized entity (broadly interpreted) can reasonably get added to a resource list, it might be helpful.

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). There are many methods for converting files to ePub and Mobi format. I’m talking in this post about self-publishing eBooks.

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

Tech Soup

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. We need to think of storytelling not just as a method of outreach, but as a central component of the mission itself. Tags: Digital Divide Reporting Running Your Organization. Photo: Roger Burks ( Elliot Harmon , CC license ).

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iCommons: Artist Residency - Exploring Open Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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