Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 5, 2009
We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand. Because of money.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 21, 2007
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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
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?
Tech Soup
APRIL 9, 2010
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.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 29, 2016
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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. Here I found phosphor by Francesco Stablum and decided to incorporate it into the video I created to practice my music skills. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 1, 2007
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.
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