Candid

APRIL 1, 2024

Mitigate risks in AI If not managed carefully, the use of AI technologies can pose risks such as potential copyright infringement, breach of confidentiality, inaccurate information, and unintentional bias. Some risks are rooted in the machine-learning data that AI tools are trained on.

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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. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

The good news is that many tools are incredibly user-friendly, and experimentation can be one of the best ways to learn what works for you. There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. How can I learn more and get started? But if you’re just starting out, you’re not behind!

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While we are definitely not experts (every day we discover something new), we wanted to share what we have learned over the past year doing social media video. We asked Candid staff who participated in video production to share what they learned; here are our top five lessons. There are a couple reasons why we do this.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Schools are back in session, and with them millions of American children who struggle daily to learn using traditional printed books. Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. There are some 7.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. Second, Bookshare now serves well over 300,000 members with qualified print disabilities.

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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. More restrictive disability definitions, using a medical model, excluding learning and cognitive disabilities in general. •

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Attendees find inspiration, new business partners, and learn new concepts to take their work to the next level. Do you have examples on this topic, has this happened to you?

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As the litany of new, strange, scary, and interesting applications of AI and machine learning keep expanding before our eyes, we all must constantly re-evaluate its implications. One of the most interesting recent applications of AI machine learning is image generation by text prompt. Learn more about our design services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Thanks to my new friend, Uncle Seth (aka Jay Moonah ) and what I learned at Boston PodCamp , this is not true. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license?

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Byte Technology

MAY 27, 2016

Too many people who hire an individual designer or firm to build and launch their website often don’t pay special attention to the fine print of a contract and are shocked to learn—usually after the site goes live—that they have less control over changes, edits and general administration than they thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

It is an array of technology that includes: robots, chat bots, artificial intelligence, machine learning, conversational interfaces, smart devices, drones, self-driving cars and others which are increasingly becoming the interface between organizations and humans. The Age of Automation has arrived. More about that scary scenario here ).

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Copyright P. Do you have an ongoing training plan that includes time for mentorship and learning? Mueller [link]. Does it feel like you never find the right combination of technologies to just make things work? Do you lie awake at night and wonder how everything is going to get done, or why a new project was just dumped on your plate?

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. If we are to break through America''s political impasse, we the people have no alternative but to learn to live together. We either learn to live together or we perish. Copyright © 2014. Martin Luther King, Jr. They''re in the same boat as we are.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” Our commitment is to provide access to books for those who are unable to read a traditional print format and to do so without harming the economic interests of authors and publishers.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. If we are to break through America''s political impasse, we the people have no alternative but to learn to live together. We either learn to live together or we perish. Copyright © 2013. Martin Luther King, Jr. They''re in the same boat as we are.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Job announcements are permitted only for positions at AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and Senior Corps programs; at state commissions; with training and technical assistance providers; and at the Corporation. Announcements of member openings are also permitted.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. The Creative Commons website is the best place to learn more about your options.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

Iterate on your prompts and learn from the outcomes to improve the quality of the generated images. Ensure that the images you create do not infringe on copyrights, promote harmful content, or misrepresent your organization. Test and iterate : AI-generated images may not always meet your expectations on the first try.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Learn more about in-kind donations and how they can help your organization! It can also include intangible property, such as copyrights and patents. While there are risks of accepting in-kind donations, those risks can be offset by creating firm policies and guidelines surrounding the in-kind donations your nonprofit will accept.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Now might be a great time for us to learn to sew an apron, curtains, or something else. Check into copyright issues and get permission if you are selling tickets. Think of this as a virtual ask or pledge event where people learn first-hand about your nonprofit’s work and make a commitment for support.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. We’ll embrace failure as part of the learning process and as a metric of a true "labs" atmosphere.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I’m honored to join my fellow contributors in sharing practical lessons we’ve learned throughout our journeys towards actualizing positive social change. We’re learning new ways to create and sustain social value. copyright law. I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

If we see an error in a book, we can't break the copyright by correcting our digital version. A note about Bookshare Bookshare , the world’s largest accessible online library, serves more than 100,000 readers with visual impairments, and physical or learning disabilities. This drives us crazy. students thanks to support from the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I heard we had a high powered finance executive volunteering on book scanning, and decided to meet her and learn more. In underdeveloped countries, the biggest problem we face is that copyright issues have not been addressed by government in the local area," Viji told the magazine. "We In countries outside the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Signs of a progressive attitude towards copyrighted stuff too: "Mr Highfield said the BBC would not be hunting down all BBC-copyrighted clips already. infringed other people's copyright, like sport, or that had been edited or. uploaded by YouTube members - although it would reserve the right to swap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

YouTube keeps the copyright, some others don't. There is also an opportunity to team up with a corporate sponsor to offer a prize consistent with your mission and their products. Ownership of content advice: " It will depend on what you want to do with the videos. Then check with a lawyer."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2009

Copyright © 2009 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Tags: Accessible Technology E-Learning Running Your Organization Services Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 This post was originally published on The Huffington Post on June 8, 2009. The setting was an amphitheater filled with attendees from around the globe.

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? As organizations continue to invest more and more staff and resources into them, they should understand that social media is not all pretty rainbows that lead to a pot of gold. Social media can totally suck too. Here’s why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Legal implications of using technology to learn about employees and applicants. 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. Moreover, the foundation has its own voice and is, in fact, on twitter ;-).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things. I followed the profile to the blog and discovered Brian Lamb's Abject Learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. Students do not have to be blind to qualify under the copyright exception. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

It was a great week for learning and connecting, with over 500 people attending the Phoenix Business Journals Fourth Annual Nonprofit Business Summit , which engaged nonprofit and business leaders in dialogue and educational sessions. In the spirit of learning, weve put together a fun quiz on Arizonas nonprofit sector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. It is our collective responsibility to continue unlocking the potential of the e-book to bring equal access to knowledge and learning for all.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

This organization uses sports, specifically basketball, as a vehicle to help youth get motivated in school and learn life lessons while at the same time producing some seriously great athletes. In my experience, Ive learned how integral life skills can be taught and nurtured by tapping into something kids love: basketball.

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