Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

, in which she argues that Creative Commons licensing, even if introducing an alternative and open licensing model, nevertheless ???strengthens strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? iron cage of copyright??? Creative Commons, writes Elkin-Koren, ???

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception. And, that American copyright exception was the inspiration for the Marrakesh Treaty! Our nonprofit organization operates Bookshare , the largest online library in the world that focuses on the needs of people with these disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S. While we remain committed to serving people with disabilities, our work with Arkenstone and Bookshare has created a model that is being replicated by Benetech and many others in new fields. We hope you’ll join us on this journey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” See you there!

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Stable Diffusion’s AI model is much more flexible to use real people’s names and images in its renderings. . And this applies directly to my main concern: copyright infringement and/or usage without consent. Because the AI models are trained on data being fed to them, unexpected prejudice can occur in what they generate. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. More restrictive disability definitions, using a medical model, excluding learning and cognitive disabilities in general. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. Instead of deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our users decide which books to scan and share with each other under an exception in the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. In June, with the help of Stevie Wonder , we got a treaty that did just that: the Treaty of Marrakesh.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Here’s a glimpse at what we’re delivering: Open-content, publicly available and freely shared image descriptions and reusable graphical models to improve accessibility of NIMAC textbooks and Common Core content (this is so cool, I'm going to write another blog just on this aspect: look for the Triple Play blog!) In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Ugandan LGBTI activist and Martus user Richard Lusimbo at the 2014 RightsCon human rights conference. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Visually impaired his entire life, he was a tireless advocate for the blind and visually impaired as well as a shining role model. He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

copyright law. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. Instead of us deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our readers decide which books should be scanned and shared under an exception in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. Instead of deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our users decide which books to scan and share with each other, which was all made possible by an exception in U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? They see copyright law as a way to control the way their message is distributed. In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

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. The development model is one person. m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires. The development model is ???firm-based.???

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

I agree we need more of these model communities. Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

This whole competition thing has been a good model for your strengths, and I have given to this worthy cause every time you asked. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Partnerships, fee-for-service models, social enterprise models, and networking are just a few avenues nonprofits can take to help navigate around the economy's traffic jam. Americans still don't feel financially stable enough to move their excess cash to the philanthropic column of their budgets.

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See3

JUNE 15, 2007

Actuallly, dessert was Clinton and Curry… two good role models for all of us. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. Stay tuned for some video from the event.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

These model collaborations were selected from a pool of over 800 applications from around the country. The Collaboration Prize was created and is funded by The Lodestar Foundation in collaboration with the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan (AIM) Alliance , of which the ASU Lodestar Center is an integral part.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change. The first was the ebook.

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

He sees a business model where I assume the big international stuff is covered by the professionals but it’s supplemented by lots of detailed and organized posting from the neighborhood. So the pothole and the PTA meeting are covered by the people it most impacts.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

But it could be a very good model for how nonprofits can use the web to open up all the way and be as transparent as possible. Remixing the content: Government content can't be copyrighted, so you're free to grab and reuse any government created content on the site. That's where Recovery.gov comes in. .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. gear up to administer standardized tests digitally next year.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

I can guarantee your video to get tons of views if you let us do Jacksss-style stunts or not-so-subtly incorporate busty models into our concept — but is this the engaged audience you are looking for? When we talk “viral videos&# we tell the clients the who is as important as the how many. Probably not.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I tried to give them a framework in which to think about this kind of change and we discussed different models to explore and teach this subject. They are thinking beyond fundraising to service delivery, health care, and many other segments of community activity for which they are responsible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

So, the ASU Lodestar Center survey, modeled on the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Panel Study , emphasizes several major prompts. Over the past year, have you done any of these types of activities?&# This simple prompt turned 2.4 percent of those who answered “no&# to a “yes&# response. Prompts really matter.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Their business model is near death and they better move faster to preserve whatever value they still have. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. Hoffman says. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. full story here Der Beitrag wurde am Monday, den 12.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. Hoffman says. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. full story here Der Beitrag wurde am Monday, den 12.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It was at this juncture that we hit upon the Creative Commons licensing model as one that would help us achieve many of our aims of flexibility, scalability and being able to help catalyse our mission of a book in every child’s hands. Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it. Tuesday, March 17th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Room 10 March 13, 2009 | Allyson Kapin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Panelist: Charlene Li, Thought Leader, Altimeter Group 4. All rights reserved.

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