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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Tags: roundup bigsociety bookmarks conference copyright facebook irl list millennials nonprofits photography postalicious privacy resources sharing slacktivism socialchange socialmedia sxsw virtualworlds.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Legal Counsel About Using Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. What do we need to understand about copyrighted material and our content strategy? Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. How do we respond without creating any -potential liability for our organization?

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It’s 2013: Where’s your nonprofit’s social media policy?

ASU Lodestar Center

But to give you an example of what a social media policy consists of, here’s a sample of the ASU Lodestar Center’s: Who can post: We determined which employee is ultimately responsible for all of our social media profiles and which other employees are allowed to post on behalf of the Center.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. You can view sample policies and a wireless policy checklist that other nonprofit organizations have shared. from legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Mainly, because they protect you and your organization from: Spyware. Lost productivity.

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December 2010 Community Builder’s Chat Wrap-up #CommBuild

Amy Sample Ward

However, we will not tolerate the following: aggressive or personal criticism of the blogger, breach of copyright, obscene, defamatory, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or likewise objectionable comments. Check out t he full transcript as we also shared a lot of ideas around moderating and engaging with negative commenters.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday Guest Post: "State of.

ASU Lodestar Center

Respondents came from large organizations and small, and from all sub-sectors, and include a small sample from Arizona. Nonprofit Finance Fund recently completed its third annual "State of the Nonprofit Sector" survey with the help of nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide.