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Why Your Country Should Ratify the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The good news is that there are now unprecedented opportunities to transform the lives of these millions by removing barriers of access to information  —   and this is where you can help. It does so by making it legal under copyright to create accessible books without needing to seek permission or (in most countries) paying a royalty.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Copyright Office. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work. The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. The good news is that users without disabilities generally hate these locks. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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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. He came back the next day and gave me unbelievably positive news. And, the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Green Technology. Anything I missed?

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Blogging and the Law

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The news has been full of bloggers who suffered retribution from their employers - but the EFF points out that this is just one possible area of legal conflict. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers.

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Read the Fine Print: Who Actually Owns Your Website?

Byte Technology

The old saying goes that possession is nine-tenths the law. But when it comes to our virtual online world—especially in the realm of website design and management—that adage doesn’t always ring true. One way many design firms keep control of a site in the most practical way is to insist that the client use their proprietary CMS.

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