Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 26, 2013
In my prepared statement, I explained why well-balanced intellectual property laws inspire technology innovation and social good, and described how our Bookshare initiative models the good that copyright exceptions can create. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright.
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’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
APRIL 20, 2006
This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software. You can find it online here.
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
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And then they go away.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 8, 2011
We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And then they go away.
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 2, 2015
iFixit is an online repair community and parts retailer internationally renowned for its open-source repair manuals and product "teardowns." If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit.
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