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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

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For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. copyright law.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

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A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term.

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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises

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copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. Each year, we look at the pipeline of dozens of good, new project ideas and measure them on this framework. But our measure of success goes beyond what any one of our initiatives alone can achieve.

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Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Main | Care2 Helps in Law of the Sea Win » Monday Nov 05 2007 Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur Monday, November 5, 2007 at 05:21PM | by Karen Taggart Ill admit it. The challenge, as with any type of list modeling, is finding out those key indicators for the outcomes you seek. All rights reserved.

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Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Main | Care2 Helps in Law of the Sea Win » Monday Nov 05 2007 Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur Monday, November 5, 2007 at 05:21PM | by Karen Taggart Ill admit it. The challenge, as with any type of list modeling, is finding out those key indicators for the outcomes you seek. All rights reserved.

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