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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gerry quickly did the legal research and came back to explain that my idea, which seemed like it should be illegal, was 100% permitted under an obscure provision of the copyright law! He had graduated from Georgetown Law School just a couple of years after my dad. He also firmly suggested that I needed to change the name.

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LACMA's Magritte Exhibition: This is not fair use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Well, we do NOT have a fair use right to photograph, without the artist's permission, works protected by copyright -- wherever they are displayed -- except for certain very limited purposes, and property, privacy, and contract law may indeed preempt that. It's really out of our hands.

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is important to respect copyright laws. An excellent source of images is to take them yourself with your digital camera or mobile phone camera. If you practice some the basic photography rules , you should be able to DIY some good images for your content strategy. Here’s a round up of resources and advice.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. has made it easy for content creators to share or protect their work by developing flexible and voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright licenses for creative works.

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