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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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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

it refers to the things you can do with an image without permission. Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S.

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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think it can serve as an excellent reference, when in doubt about whether you are still doing the right thing or not, when it comes to re-using and republishing other people content. ” He says that copyright infringement is not theft. His concern was that people would get the wrong message: content curation = theft.

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

Tech Soup

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.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

Do not reference or identify any person, entity, or property in your submission unless you and/or your group have received that person's/entity's permission in writing. Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights. b) Third Party Rights.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

Do not reference or identify any person, entity, trademark, copyright, or property in your post unless you and/or your group have received that person's/entity's permission in writing. Submission Restrictions. (a) a) In General. Limit one submission per individual. Do not copy the work of any other person or entity. (b)

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