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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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Let Freedom Ring

VisionLink

The angry and insistent voices of the factions that make up today’s political landscape are like all the bands marching in the Independence Day parade of my youth, each playing its own patriotic song in its own key as loudly as it can in a vain attempt to drown out the other bands; each band convinced of its right to be more equal than others.

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Social Media Usage Guidelines: Don't moon people with cameras (or at least hide your face when you do)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LLP (F&W), a Silicon-Valley-based law firm. I can't share the specifics because of copyright issues, but it was informative to hear the lawyer's perspective and it has prompted some important insights for me. My blog is my voice. Brownstone, Esq.

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Congratulations to Nonprofit Campaigners on Three Recent Victories - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Environmental Groups Prompt EPA to Block Five Mountaintop Mining Projects For several years, Sierra Club , EarthJustice and Appalachian Voices have campaigned strongly to end mining projects that involve blasting away entire peaks, then dumping millions of tons of waste rock in the valleys below, causing permanent damage to the ecosystem.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead. million in government grants , although Ill guess that those were probably really contracts. Shawn: The law is too cut and dry on distribution of charitable assets.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. 37 Now the global leader in cloud computing, AWS provides governments with data storage space, the military with algorithmic power and other companies with logistics solutions and machine learning. Phil Jones.

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