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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ???

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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 My idea was completely legal!

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

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. Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. What It Is. What it is.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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IP Protection for Software: Cake and Amish Barn Raising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. Executable code for a operating system. The license: ???I???m m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires.

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So You Think You Can Blog? Guidelines For New Bloggers

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Respect copyright laws by quoting and linking to the full text and only use images that you have permission to use (i.e. the image falls under fair use or creative commons licensing or you have explicit permission from the owner). Help them find the system that works best for them to manage their blogging time.

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