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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. What’s next?

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

Tech Soup

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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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

Tech Soup

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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The Wealth of Networks, Part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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