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Privacy Laws Are Changing: Make Sure Your Nonprofit Is Ready

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Your legal counsel can help you understand how the changing laws apply to your organization’s data collection, usage, and storage. NOTE: The following information does not constitute legal advice and is not a comprehensive review of data privacy laws. Alter marketing settings? Set data storage expirations?

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. This shift is already happening in major markets: Amazon.com now sells more digital books than print books. One of the biggest issues is digital rights management.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

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This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty.

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Better marketing for nonprofits

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Every marketer understands the challenge of competing for attention among a sea of content with limited resources. The problem is even more acute for nonprofits, which typically experience stricter budgets and more mission-related limits on what they can do when they market. Nevertheless, great marketing is possible for nonprofits.

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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!

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As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week.

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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises

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We address the market failure that occurs when the needs of the social sector don’t match the goals that for-profit companies consider worth pursuing. copyright law. Distribution and Go-to-Market Plan: Our product will only matter if we can get it to the people who need it.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

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After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.