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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. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

VisionLink

The community operating system of VisionLink is built to enable the operational connections between needs and assets across our nation''s communities. Or as Jefferson put it: that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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Martin Luther King Day 2015

VisionLink

The community operating system of VisionLink is built to enable the operational connections between needs and assets across our nation''s communities. Or as Jefferson put it: that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. 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? What are the pros/cons of doing so?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Obama – Online Fundraising Case Study

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Lets say I am that law partner and by making a lot of calls I can get 50 people to max out for my candidate. For the Obama campaign to get to $117,300 from $25 donors mean they have 4692 people donating instead of only 51. An individual may give $2,300 per federal election. That’s $117,300, including my own contribution.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. No more donations to our charity. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. And then they go away.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

In this economy, we shouldnt be surprised that a big chunk of these tiny organizations reliant on donations have simply disappeared. When I called them, I got a calling system for Summa Associates. Shawn: The law is too cut and dry on distribution of charitable assets. Mostly theyre clubs, and they come and go.