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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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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. Jimmy then explained it was free, and would always be free.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

government (" U.S. Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights. This Challenge is void in the U.S. This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. Embargo Countries "). a) In General.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Do not reference or identify any person, entity, trademark, copyright, or property in your post unless you and/or your group have received that person's/entity's permission in writing.

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With Liberty, and Information, For All?

NTEN

Remixing the content: Government content can't be copyrighted, so you're free to grab and reuse any government created content on the site. But they've also made sure that third-party content is licensed through Creative Commons. You need to do at least that, preferably more.

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