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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. We can do better!

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Vizify :: vizify.com.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Animoto :: animoto.com. noCloud :: npcloud.org.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

Tech Soup

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. It’s a free download for most computer OS platforms like Mac, Linux, and Windows, and is available in several languages as well. You can download all the guides here.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Command and Control vs. Grassroots and Authenticity

See3

But the Black Eyed Peas made this great music video about Obama. You can see it in the language they use. Obama uses the language of “we and you,&# which is inclusive and nods to the wisdom of the crowds. Unlike Obama, she’s used traditional media almost entirely, like her town meeting on the Hallmark Channel.