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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. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. It’s completely rational for a publisher to not bother signing a license that represents either zero or trivial sums of money.

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How to Protect Your Identity After the Equifax Data Breach

Tech Soup

Last week, Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies, came clean with a stunning announcement: A security breach had exposed data on nearly 143 million Americans — nearly half the population of the United States. If security experts have been waiting for the "big one," it looks like this is it.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on.

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Top 10 Sources for Free Images

Tech Soup

You can add other criteria as well, such as type of file (like JPG only), type of image (like only faces), and even colors you want in the image. Flickr is one of our go-to places for Creative Commons- licensed images. You can search by topic, location, type, author, license, and source. You can also search files by tags.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. Interest in exploring these models has been rising in the United States, but they are much more common in Europe.

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TechSoup's Donation Programs Continue to Grow

Tech Soup

Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. Almost any file type — Word documents, PDFs, images, and even video — can be uploaded to Huddle’s workspaces.

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