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Bring a Question: Creative Commons Hosts TechSoup Social Channels on September 17, 2014

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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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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

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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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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. In 2011, YouTube started letting people post their videos with Creative Commons licenses. The standard YouTube license is restrictive. CC BY is the most permissive CC license.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)! It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

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TechSoup's Carlos Bergfeld was there too, as well as TechSoup forum host Robert Weiner. The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. Photo: Roger Burks ( Elliot Harmon , CC license ). We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery.

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

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

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