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Spotted: Another Hold The Sign Meme on Flickr

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American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work. The Flickr stream is here. I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license.

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Creative Commons Licensing Teachable Moment and An Apology!

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Two days ago, The Tech Chronicles Blog published a post about Marc Canter's "Ahem Society" that used one of my flickr photos. So I complained in flickr , my blog and left a comment on the Tech Chronicles Blog. (I who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! (I I also asked this guy.

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Is some big old mean (ahem) commercial scavenger getting fabulously rich off of my photos?

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Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution. That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. Heck, that a lot of exposure beyond flickr.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Highlights from the NpDev and More

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From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! A Better World In Second Life Blog is tracking political activism taking place in virtual worlds.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

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Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

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I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." " Of course, I couldn't imagine doing otherwise!

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

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cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. Flickr the Conference. We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. Previously, On NMC….