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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, this is an in-depth report on the two days I just spent at the end of last week in Geneva. The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Microsoft to Issue Blanket License to NGOs - PCWorld Business Center

AFP Blog

Microsoft to Issue Blanket License to NGOs - PCWorld Business Center: "Microsoft will issue a blanket software license to nonprofit groups and journalist groups outside the U.S. after the New York Times reported that Russian police have used software copyright raids to seize computers of activist groups."

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Lame spams of the day: More people sending me money

Robert Weiner

Subject: Successful Credit Card Settlement Report. Text: Dear Customer, The following is your Credit Card settlement report for Tuesday, August 14, 2012. You can download your full report at https://account.authorize.net/login/protected/download/settlementreport/. Click "Reports" from the main menu. Click "Run Report".

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Getting Close to a Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. Being silent on the big issue of circumvention would lead to a world where accessibility could be prohibited by contract.

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

Tech Soup

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. NGOs understand the issues in troubled areas as well as reporters do; we have the opportunity to market our sector as a trusted, impartial source for global reporting. Photo: Roger Burks ( Elliot Harmon , CC license ).

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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. Bring everyone together for a report out. or Why Not?

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