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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, we're joining what is probably the largest online protest in history , by blacking out significant portions of the Benetech website, as well as our Martus and HRDAG human rights websites. Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous.

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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. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Lame spams of the day: More people sending me money

Robert Weiner

Subject: Your Payment History. Please check Your Payment History in the payment tool. © Copyright 2011 Online Payment Center, South House, Black Prince Road, US SE1 7SJ. Number of Refund Transactions: 2. Amount of Refund Transactions: 211.81. Sender: Payment Center (no-reply@jarmo.dk). Text: Welcome to Online Payment Center.

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Martin Luther King Day 2015

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We the people have also seen throughout our history what we are capable of achieving when we work together, unleashing and focusing our energies towards meeting our challenges. Copyright © 2014. -Martin Luther King, Jr. It is the true meaning of our creed that teaches us how to get along. Free at last! Stan Stahl, Ph.D.

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

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We the people have also seen throughout our history what we are capable of achieving when we work together, unleashing and focusing our energies towards meeting our challenges. Copyright © 2013. -Martin Luther King, Jr. It is the true meaning of our creed that teaches us how to get along. Free at last! Stan Stahl, Ph.D.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 In this courageous guest post, Adrienne Berney, a Collections Care Trainer who works primarily with history museums, gives us an insider’s guide to these issues. Copyright infringements: A large portion of historical collections are in the public domain.

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Independence Day, 2011

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Three hundred million of us, each with our own story; the story of who we are and who we hope to be: our family background, our history, our culture, along with our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations and our prayers for our children and for the world. © Copyright 2011. Let Freedom Ring. Stan Stahl, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved.'

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