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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. copyright law.

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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

Byte Technology

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. Since we first began offering this option three years ago, Bookshare members have downloaded over 150,000 MP3 files from the collection. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. We developed strong relationships with publishers who share our values and voluntarily submit high quality digital files directly to Bookshare. Each year, we look at the pipeline of dozens of good, new project ideas and measure them on this framework. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Whats an Email Address Worth? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot. In selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. FAQs Q: How is drop-off measured?

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Whats an Email Address Worth? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot. In selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. FAQs Q: How is drop-off measured?

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

The evaluation tools and techniques you choose will depend in large part on the message, the method of delivery, and the outcome that you want to measure. Consider the different ways you might measure the success of a specific process (e.g. Copyright © 2008. changes in awareness or attitude) or tangible results (e.g.