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Congressional Testimony Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

On August 1, 2013, I testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on the subject “ Innovation in America: The Role of Technology.” We depend on an intellectual property system that works and is friendly to innovation. We call this building the last “social mile.”

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? The concept and mechanisms of licensing are introduced to people who would not previously consider copyrighting their works, and thus possibly commodify their creations. iron cage of copyright??? Creative Commons, writes Elkin-Koren, ???may What this ???sloppiness???

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? He is an activist for EFF.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. Big Data and the Internet of Things. MIT Technology Review declared 2013 the year of the Internet of Things. Big picure time.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Obama – Online Fundraising Case Study

See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Lets say I am that law partner and by making a lot of calls I can get 50 people to max out for my candidate. We care about this because we care about using the internet for fundraising and advocacy. The internet, only the internet, makes possible this kind of retail fundraising. The internet didn’t raise the money.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. people who are blind or severely dyslexic), and human rights groups will be collateral damage in Hollywood’s attempt to break the Internet in their latest effort to squash “piracy.” And then they go away.

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SOPA Strike: 12 Hour Internet Blackout on Jan. 18th To Call Attention to US Bill That Threatens Open Internet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike. We rely on the open Internet to carry out our mission, and on social media and citizen media websites that allow for simple publication and sharing of content. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S,

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Identity 2.0

See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale. Have you read the Talmud and the Internet by Jonathan Rosen? The Talmud and the Internet is a great read. It’s fantastic. I too was thinking of it when reading these proposals.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. people who are blind or severely dyslexic), and human rights groups will be collateral damage in Hollywood’s attempt to break the Internet in their latest effort to squash “piracy.” And then they go away.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. has made it easy for content creators to share or protect their work by developing flexible and voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright licenses for creative works. It shouldn???t

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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The Wealth of Networks, Part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). I had a joint meeting (both Republicans and Democrats) with the key Senate Judiciary Committee staff who are the copyright experts, and learned a lot about the process. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!)

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Challenge of Viral Video

See3

DECEMBER 19, 2007

While official YouTube estimates put the debates’ total number of hits at just under a dozen, some candidates claimed the statistics had been miscalculated and should be rounded up to 13 to include the time Democratic candidate Joe Biden was unable to view the video because his dial-up Internet connection was too slow. .&#

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Congressional Testimony Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

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

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Obama – Online Fundraising Case Study

Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

SOPA Strike: 12 Hour Internet Blackout on Jan. 18th To Call Attention to US Bill That Threatens Open Internet

See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Identity 2.0

Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

The Wealth of Networks, Part II

Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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