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JULY 3, 2023

When they reached the Capitol Building, many activists left their wheelchairs and powerchairs and shed their other mobility aids to crawl up the steps to demonstrate the inaccessibility of public spaces and push senators to vote yes on the act. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

law that covers this is called the right of publicity. The right of publicity prevents the unauthorized commercial use of an individual's name, likeness, or other recognizable aspects of the individual's persona, including the person's voice. The area of U.S. If the person pictured is under 18 years of age.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Similarly, companies like Amazon are making it easy for anyone to create powerful natural language processing or computer vision models without needing to build their own complex deep learning infrastructure. With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

Increasingly, policy and social change has been studied through the lens of the social economy, and there is now a developed scholarly literature in this field (much of it through the European Research Network ). The Blueprint returns to the need for the laws and regulations to catch up to the new paradigm. This is exciting!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2012

Although insurance companies underwrite bonds, they do not function the same way as traditional insurance policies. Thousands of individual surety bond types exist, each providing a specific type of financial protection that depends on the bond's purpose and its contractual language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways. In time, it may become a platform for immigrant communities to help ACLU-NC drive momentous legal and policy victories.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. These licenses provide a plain-language, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work — on conditions of the creator's choice. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. The fact-finding public hearing and request for comments seemed to have two purposes: both to understand how Chafee is working and to report back to WIPO about the U.S. copyright law. national experience.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

BUT, what if we did invite the public to provide situational awareness such as telling us about the elderly people on a hill? What if we stopped thinking of the public as a liability and started empowering them to be valuable resources who can increase efficiency and make a real impact?

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

According to research by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, 80% of nonprofits don’t have a policy to address cyberattacks. A good place to start building a policy (if you don’t already have one) is to assess your organization’s risk with our checklist. When you are away from home, be cautious with public Wi-Fi.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It can be at the least divisive, and at the most, disruptive and damaging to the culture, production, public relations, and financial well-being of an organization. Social media, remote work policies, and changing social norms have blurred the lines between the workplace and “private lives”.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

And they say China is being Orwellian with language as they prepare for the Olympics.) One point being missed in the public debate is APPALACHIAN LANDOWNERS WANT MOUNTAINTOP MINING! All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us Obvious isn’t it.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

You can read more on the protests of the 60s and 70s at American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s online exhibit, “Speaking and Protesting in America”. . This decade also saw the Black Power Movement, American Indian Movement, a further push for women’s rights , rights of farmworkers, and the Green Power Movement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. The most typical means of accessibility is to use software that reads the digital text aloud in a computer-synthesized voice. serving students with print disabilities.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

We send out action alerts, blog passionately, share petitions on Facebook and upload videos highlighting the stakes involved in our various policy fights, all intended to spark people to take action. From policy language to video how-to’s, your organization should prepare content before you need it.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

Because of the non-binding nature of the intention, however, it’s most wise to provide benefits that are either of no cost or low cost, such as listing donors in acknowledgement publications, sending them special invitations or advance notices for organizational activities, or perhaps giving them a token thank-you gift.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

It''s a terrible case of private interest trumping the public good. law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. The MPAA has claimed, in a public statement, that they are only seeking " balance." It would be an absolute shame for this to happen. Are you as confused as I am about that?

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Often though, action alerts and fundraising appeals are written for senior management’s approval and just use their own wonky, boiler plate language. Timely And Channels The Public’s Anger "The truth is, shifting away from dirty energy is great for working families—and its essential to rebuilding our tanking economy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. They wouldn't know she had stood with Gandhi in his resistance to the British, and supported his policy of nonviolent resistance to British colonialism. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law.

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