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I Need a Good Lawyer

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We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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Delhi University

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Lord Mountbatten proposed to his wife in that building and was later the Chancellor of the University as the UK's last Viceroy to India. I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for open source screen readers. Before breakfast, I got up before dawn and wandered around the campus.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

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We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

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We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups.

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.