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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ???

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. In 2011, YouTube started letting people post their videos with Creative Commons licenses. The standard YouTube license is restrictive. CC BY is the most permissive CC license.

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Why Social Media Can Suck

Care2

Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? It seems that Facebook maybe thinking about giving third party apps or networks the right to use your name or pictures in ads in the future. Here’s why. Your Brand Or Profile Photo Could Be Used For Product Endorsements Without Consent.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)!

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

Take a picture at our Booth 217 using our #TechedUp sign. Take a picture at TechSoup Booth 217 using the #TechedUp sign. Take a picture at TechSoup Booth 217 using the #TechedUp sign. This is a $600 market value! Your task, should you choose to participate: 1. Answer a few questions about Adobe. b) Third Party Rights.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.