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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure.

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Don't Just Post, Post a Story

Tech Soup

Are you shocked to find out that uploading photos is the number one activity on Facebook, or that Pinterest is the number one growing social platform these days? Pay attention to copyright - stealing content is not okay, so make sure you have the proper licensing and copyright to share your post. You shouldn't be.

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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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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) You can log in using OpenID.

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Some Thinking Outloud About Open Content for Nonprofits and Penguin Day Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This session will define core concepts including the Creative Commons license, and then offer examples of how open content is already benefitting the nonprofit sector. Lucy Chilli's Copyright and Commons Publishing Game. Pick tools, publishing license 3. Each group would be asked to: 1. Discuss issues/questions that come up 4.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to. Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. . $5-$30 Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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