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Share, Use, Remix: An Overview of Creative Commons

NTEN

Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work.

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Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” If you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans, we’ll also be leading a featured session “ The Age of Automation: Bots, AI, and the Struggle for Humanity.” Robot lawyers probably won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or write elegant legal briefs just yet.

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What to Do When Technology Isn’t Your Problem

Robert Weiner

Copyright P. If you technology decisions at your organization are driven by some of the following, we’d love to see you at NTEN''s Nonprofit Technology Conference (aka the NTC): We chose the system because we have a volunteer who knows it. Mueller [link]. Or “Our VISTA/New Sector volunteer is really smart. She’ll figure this out!”.

Problem 100
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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” He says that copyright infringement is not theft. ” This is the topic of my feature article the NTEN Change journal for June, 2012. I think it can serve as an excellent reference, when in doubt about whether you are still doing the right thing or not, when it comes to re-using and republishing other people content.

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M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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