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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind. We even convinced schema.org—the standards setting body for the big search engines—to adopt a standard to make it easier to discover accessible materials online.

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You Have a Google Grant—Now What? A Guide for Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

These appear within a Google search as sponsored links and are the vehicle for bringing people to your page. Keywords are associated with ads and determine whether the ad is shown during any Google search. This may not be the ideal solution for all organizations, as some may benefit from developing a national presence.

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Care2 Petition Helps Prevent National Park Service Changes - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Think Like a Designer: Viral Video and Paradox | Main | Web Metrics Wilderness: Find Your Site Conversion Pages. Last August, a draft of policies and rules for National Parks was leaked that emphasized commercialization, tourism, and motorized recreation within the parks. Thanks for the info! All rights reserved.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. The fourth one is The Nations Missing Children, in Phoenix. Web searches dont turn up much for this specific organization. For the most part, if you think to ask, you probably arent on the list.

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Happy Halloween from the Halloween Video Blog Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws. Later, I went and looked over at blip.tv

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