Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable. as well as meeting with our Bookshare funders at the Department of Education.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S. talking about their research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. Its also going to be a lot of fun - I'm filming with Negativland, GirlTalk, The Freelance Hellraiser, DJ Food, John Oswald, Mark Viddler, and Lawrence Lessig among many others.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

So, now is the fun part. the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work. Read the license.

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