Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

When I explained that our board just didn’t see manufacturing reading machines for the blind making financial sense for a for-profit company, Gerry said “How about you set up a deliberately nonprofit tech company?” He had graduated from Georgetown Law School just a couple of years after my dad. He took the idea one step further.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. PICT was in an uncomfortable middle ground: the company used union artists and performed copyrighted works, but lacked the Met's clout. I find the three companies' stories interesting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

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. This is satisfied by having a law like the Chafee Amendment in the U.S., It doesn’t cover movies.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2014

Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. and as far as I know, most of the other exceptions) law, there is no approval or authorization by other entities, whether government, publishing industry or the disability consumer organizations. Compare that to the fair use exception, which has plenty of case law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

Our nonprofit organization operates Bookshare , the largest online library in the world that focuses on the needs of people with these disabilities. The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception. And, that American copyright exception was the inspiration for the Marrakesh Treaty!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This historic international copyright exception treaty paves the way for a future in which people who cannot read regular printed materials can have equal access to books, regardless of where they live. It supports domestic human and civil rights laws around access to information and education. · It is politically popular.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been collaborating on research and writing about the next wave of disruptive technologies (AI, Bots, and Robots) and what it means for the nonprofit sector. Robot lawyers probably won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or write elegant legal briefs just yet. But it requires careful thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

On the serious side, I wish there were some clear guidelines about what exactly is fair use in the nonprofit space. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

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. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. What do we need to understand about copyrighted material and our content strategy? Source: amazon.com via Beth on Pinterest.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We get a huge amount of pro bono assistance from the legal profession, both because of our social impact as a nonprofit, and because of the challenging and interesting issues we tackle.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Eligible Sweepstakes posts must made by Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") attendees in Washington, DC. Stop By and Visit Us — Booth 217. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

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Byte Technology

MAY 27, 2016

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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" This is a huge step forward for ocean conservation and international law. Nice blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

What is it like for a nonprofit to have a successful, lasting partnership with a private philanthropic foundation? grant by the Lavelle Fund and with welcome changes to Indian copyright law in effect, we embarked on a new project to increase service and expand the number of accessible books for people who are blind in India.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2018

Note: most movies are protected by copyright law, so make sure you have the proper rights before a public screening! The post 10 Summer Fundraisers for 2018 appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. You can have people provide their own snacks or set up your own concession stand to raise a few extra bucks. Outdoor yoga class.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. Office 365 for Nonprofits. Here’s what it all looked like to me. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. This is the key federal law affecting Internet use in schools, requiring any school district that receives E-Rate funding to filter or. Is your policy in sync with state law or district policies on cyber bullying, cell phone use and filtering? Lost productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

who is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LLP (F&W), a Silicon-Valley-based law firm. I can't share the specifics because of copyright issues, but it was informative to hear the lawyer's perspective and it has prompted some important insights for me. Brownstone, Esq.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. That's how I found my way into advocating for nonprofit technology and encouraging others to activism over technological legislation. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Digital and mobile communications are changing the rules about social networks, intellectual property, and the availability of big data, with an overall blurring of the boundaries between state, for-profits, and nonprofits. In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. What is your nonprofit's mission? Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story! The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) Eligibility.

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Care2

JUNE 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Chances are they will probably lie around for a while and the next thing you know, they expired.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

What Next — posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center The IRS has begun to revoke the tax-exempt status for those nonprofit organizations that have not filed some form of a 990 (information report) for three years. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B. All You Need is Love.

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See3

MAY 9, 2007

There are laws about having people doing things on behalf of the campaign — either they are “on-the-books&# and you as the campaign have to account for everything they say and do, or they are totally “off-the-books&# and you can’t even talk to them without fear of breaking federal election laws.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 15, 2011 Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead and Manage a Nonprofit Organization posted by Laura L. A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] 1] In the past few decades, the nonprofit workforce has become increasingly professionalized.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

Sage Wisdom to Share with Nonprofit Bloggers. Respect copyright laws by quoting and linking to the full text and only use images that you have permission to use (i.e. What lessons have you shared with bloggers at your nonprofit? Are you going to let comments go live as they come in, or approve them one by one?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

My first job in nonprofit and technology was as community manager for an online network of artists called ArtsWire in 1993 before the Web. For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) second enclosure???--the s about the money.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The result is that the chaff is blown away, leaving behind a much cleaner picture of the nonprofit sector.

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