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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)!

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Get a Google Earth Pro License for Free! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award | Main | Building a Successful Internet Presence » Tuesday Aug 21 2007 Get a Google Earth Pro License for Free! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved.

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How do you define Creative Commons Attribution?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. The First Giving Blog has a post " Riffing On Creative Commons License ". And how do you respond?

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. Youth trying to learn new art mediums, they often incorrectly use copyrighted works.they create a derivative work.a

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Fight Hunger Announces Video Content Winner!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A little bit NPTech blog kismet, someone just the other day raised the question: "What's good or useful about user-generated content and what's just entertaining or cute?" You should also keep an eye on licensing and copyright. Be prepared for techy questions/problems and to help solve them to maximise your entries.

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