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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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? What software do they use to manage their development? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? You’re going to be working with them for months.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Copyright P. Are you trying to solve a lack of strategy or broken processes by throwing software at the problem? Mueller [link]. Does it feel like you never find the right combination of technologies to just make things work? Have you prioritized your technology needs and projects, or are you responding to whoever screams the loudest?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” We at Benetech are therefore a proponent of “social” DRM formats that allow interoperability with assistive technology (AT) devices and software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

copyright law. Succeeding through partnerships is a recurring theme that runs through all of Benetech’s programs and that informs our activities as we work to deliver the next generation of innovative software solutions for social good. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. Read more about Free Graphics Software and Images. Image 1 : C! /

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

IP Protection for Software??? which covered the legal regimes that might be brought bear on software. 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. m not going to assert my copyright rights.???

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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. Our flagship Martus software project marks its tenth anniversary of bringing strong crypto to human rights activists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I’ve been watching with interest the legal controversy over the synthetic speech capability of the new version of the Amazon Kindle, such as the coverage on Boing-Boing entitled Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal. Tags: Kindle Kindle2 Authors Guild copyfight copyright blind amazon.com NFB. This isn’t a new issue.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Now, more than two decades later, social entrepreneurship is a hot global movement and Benetech has become the “go to” nonprofit software company in the heart of Silicon Valley. copyright law. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. copyright law. Bookshare was one of the early recipients of a Google Grant of online advertising, which continues to this day. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. What monitoring strategies will be used, whether filtering software, scanning emails, or scanning proxy server logs for inappropriate websites. Lost productivity. From spyware.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Low-cost movie editing is also possible with built-in computter software (iMovie on Macs and Windows Movie Maker on PCs) or YouTube's own editing tools. The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer. And that's just two examples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I saw this cool software where you type in using Braille chords the sound of the character you want (first picture) , and then it gives you a list of similar-sounding characters along with a brief description (second picture). I'm excited about working with them, and hope it leads to doing a lot more in Hong Kong and in mainland China.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Microsoft to Issue Blanket License to NGOs - PCWorld Business Center: "Microsoft will issue a blanket software license to nonprofit groups and journalist groups outside the U.S. after the New York Times reported that Russian police have used software copyright raids to seize computers of activist groups."

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

Let's start with one from February's Software Development : Licence Overload , opinion by Warren Keuffel. This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. my software doesn't do that). He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws. Music by Imogen Heap.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? What systems and practices do they have in place to ensure that they don’t exceed the agreed-upon budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. 42 on Amazon Skype Podcast Recording Software Skype [link] (Skype to Skype is free. Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. You can pay monthly, or as you go if you call from Skype to a phone). 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

" Put a software developer in a room with pizza at one end and software comes out the other end." " (about copyright issues). Zittrain Quotables. " (Photo of pizza from last night Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers Meeting). "(GNU not UNIX) example of GPL. What does GNU mean? It means GNUS not Unix.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. Wonderful stuff.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Green Technology. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

The idea here is that any programmer can now write software for the iPhone. Not illicit, hacky apps like people have been writing so far, but authorized, tested, legitimate software, much of it free, that can tap into all the features of the iPhone. There’s a video of Steve Jobs’s announcement.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

» Monday Aug 27 2007 NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award Monday, August 27, 2007 at 10:18AM | by Hatef Yamini If your nonprofit is a 501(c)3 and meets some other basic criteria, you can apply for a an Innovation Award and win up to $43,000 in cash, technologoy consulting, hardware and software. com , Inc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. Wonderful stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. The most typical means of accessibility is to use software that reads the digital text aloud in a computer-synthesized voice. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 14, 2022

Photo copyright: The National Aquarium. These seemingly basic upgrades fixed things that their previous donor prospect research software lacked, which often resulted in inaccurate donor information and led to asks where the prospect did not have nearly the level of wealth that the old system indicated they did. The Old Ways.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Copyright Office, completed its "triannual" rulemaking on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They include wider unlocking of phones, tablets, and smart TVs; and fixing vehicle software. Library of Congress, working with the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. Where can you find photos that aren't outrageously expensive or under copyright protection? See here , here , and here ). But not all.

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See3

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I am a big believer in&# cloud computing &# or “ software as a service &# or whatever you want to call it. 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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. This software is a classic freemium service, providing basic features for free, but the more interesting effects are only available for a $5 per month subscription.

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