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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

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Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. How do we uphold the social bargain?

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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

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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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Can I Use That Image for My Website or Newsletter?

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With so many cute cat photos on the Internet, it's tempting to just grab one and use it on your website. But what are the rules and where can you get good public domain or Creative Commons images to spice up your website? copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

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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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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

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The Sweepstakes is open to individuals, submitting on behalf of nonprofit organizations and libraries all over the world, who are attending the 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") in Washington, DC. and makes no representation or warranty that the Sweepstakes is in compliance with your local law. a) In General.

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