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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure. 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.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone. Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology.

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IP Protection for Software: Cake and Amish Barn Raising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. Sequence, structure, and operation??? ??? The license: ???I???m m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish? How Did I Do It?

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The museums cared about participants connecting with artworks and identifying them properly, whereas the Wikimedians cared more about participants sharing images under open legal licenses.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

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Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. This is what makes structure such a critical component of any content marketing process. It’s not a sexy topic, but structuring your ideas is what constrains our thoughts to adherable guidelines. Avoid Copyright Infringement. Introduction.

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