Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

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. from the majority of IP owners we approach.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. We chatted about the sad decline in international newspaper correspondents , but Roger suggested that this downturn could open new possibilities for nonprofits. Photo: Roger Burks ( Elliot Harmon , CC license ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license. In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. Why Make it Open?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

But it could be a very good model for how nonprofits can use the web to open up all the way and be as transparent as possible. My favorite bit so far is the jobs map. . You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent. In our work, we need to apply the same lesson.

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