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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

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Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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Bookshare’s Status as an Authorized Entity under Section 121

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Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities. Dozens of publishers and authors have signed contracts with Bookshare that confirm and support its work as an authorized entity as well.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

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I've included the post below, but comments are best done on the HuffPo site above. We give inventors and authors a time-limited qualified monopoly on their creations to encourage them to bring them to other people through dissemination and commercialization, where appropriate.

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

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They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” I don't have a formal attribution policy.

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A. Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 02:57PM | by James OMalley Award-winning author Allison Fine chats at length about nonprofits use of social media, her book Momentum , and how the Connected Age technology links everyone to your organization. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Free Video Conference: Solutions Stars on Internet Marketing - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Some of the notables include: Tim Ferriss , author of Four Hour Work Week Guy Kawasaki , co-founder of Alltop.com and Apple marketing legend Tony Hseih , CEO of Zappos Darren Rowse , author at ProBlogger Chris Brogan , VP of Strategy at CrossTech Media Steve Hall , publisher and author of AdRants.the list really goes on and on.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » iPhone 2.0 – Bigger Than Sliced Tomatoes

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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. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment jackie Does this mean office iPhones will be required in the next year?? There’s a video of Steve Jobs’s announcement.

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