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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gerry quickly did the legal research and came back to explain that my idea, which seemed like it should be illegal, was 100% permitted under an obscure provision of the copyright law! He had graduated from Georgetown Law School just a couple of years after my dad. He also firmly suggested that I needed to change the name.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. It remains an option under the Treaty, though.

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Bookshare Volunteers Are the Best!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When Bookshare was first created, we conceived of the concept of a digital library built by the people who use the library, instead of solely by librarians deciding what people with print disabilities should read. Tags: volunteer blind library Lyons Bookshare. Using a provision of U.S. Bookshare Volunteers are the best!

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it!

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Can I Use That Image for My Website or Newsletter?

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With the rise of visual social media (like Pinterest and Instagram), a clear trend in digital communications is more images and fewer words — even if you are communicating through your website or an email newsletter. copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

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Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. details, particularly in email and bulletin boards. What monitoring strategies will be used, whether filtering software, scanning emails, or scanning proxy server logs for inappropriate websites.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. There are remedies.

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