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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

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We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Background on this can be reviewed at the Knowledge Ecology International website. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. Except, that’s the status quo.

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

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It's definitely easier to grab great videos off the Internet to put on your website or blog than to make them. In general, it's fine to post video that you create yourself on your website. Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service.

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Can I Use That Image for My Website or Newsletter?

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With so many cute cat photos on the Internet, it's tempting to just grab one and use it on your website. But what are the rules and where can you get good public domain or Creative Commons images to spice up your website? copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not.

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Bookshare to Convert Open Content Textbooks to Accessible Formats

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Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable. We also can (and do) make them freely available on our website. We've been big fans of OERs and CC licensing, and it seems like the field is on the brink of really going to scale.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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, thanks to our Creative Commons license. This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. What Is Creative Commons?

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Austria conference on access technology

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I met the developer behind WebVisum, which is getting much attention from blind people for its ability to make CAPTCHAs (those annoying squiggly words you have to type to access many websites) accessible. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)! And that's just two examples.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

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owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse.

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