Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

that he wrote about it in his 1835 book Democracy in America. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Alexis de Tocquevillea French philosopher and diplomat who arrived in the United States in 1831 to study the new nations penal systemwas so impressed by the scale of volunteering in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Specialists and their salons wanted to be perfectly booked up, and salons weren’t actually completely offline, either. Individual clients have differing requirements, treatments may take more or less time, and specialists are not robots whose time management can be predicted. Image Credits: Boulevard under a CC BY 2.0

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Four major book publishers have filed suit against the Internet Archive for copyright violations relating to the Open Library project , setting the stage for a major legal fight over one of the internet’s longest-running ebook archives. Crucially, the project circumvents the typical licensing restrictions used by conventional libraries.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

As business scholars Thomas Davenport and John Beck argue in their book The Attention Economy , in a saturated information landscape, being memorableeven disruptivelyis a strategic advantage. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. As philosopher Glenn A. Read the original article.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 11, 2013

From brand licensing opportunities to renting digital space, there are some creative revenue opportunities out there if you just know where to look. Exploring brand licensing. There is huge monetization potential, as well as numerous benefits, in brand licensing. Selling an e-book. Here’s what they had to say: 1.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2017

Get your design driver's license by taking a few of TechSoup's online design courses. understand and identify brand book elements. Get your design license. Go from zero to 60 — or at least gather enough speed to get on the highway entrance — with our Design for Nondesigner course series. Let's face it.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

His books include internationally bestselling How the World Thinks ; How to Think Like a Philosopher ; The Virtues of the Table ; and The Pig That Wants to be Eaten. Below, Julian shares five key insights from his new book, How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. They only eat what they have gathered that day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period.

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.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

Empower Your Team Give your team license to help. If you receive the green light to delegate responsibility, then it’s time to give your team license to help. To learn how.orgSource helps our clients lighten the load for their heavy lifters, book time on my calendar to chat.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Fewer than 300 pages, the book parachutes the reader immediately into a cab journey in Ireland that Boden is taking post-financial crisis, when bankers weren’t exactly close to the public’s heart. Anne Boden: As you know, I’ve already done another book, “The Money Revolution.” I’m at the beginning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Our primary goal is to ensure that people with disabilities get equal access to the books and content they need for education, employment, leisure and social inclusion. We think that people with print disabilities should be able to get their books the same way people without disabilities get them.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s doing so because the company thinks the terms involved with selling digital versions of books to libraries, which in turn make them available to local residents for free through ebook lending platforms like Libby, are unfavorable. In fact, Amazon is the only major publisher that’s doing this, the report states.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Because they are covered by open content licenses, we don't have to have people prove they have qualifying disabilities. Parents, teachers, teachers-in-training, people with disabilities, people who can't read, people who just want to hear a book talk: they can all have these books for free!

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

that makes Bookshare possible) and open licensing terms, so that people who the market will fail to address get the benefits of our incredibly rich and expanding knowledge base. James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2022

Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh , Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , and other books, movies, and compositions from 1926 enter into the public domain today in the US. This year, the usual list of books, movies, and compositions comes with a sizable bonus: a trove of around 400,000 early sound recordings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

He is currently licensed in Illinois and Florida. 7) Kimberly Niezgoda Kimberly Niezgoda (linkedin.com/kimberly-auctioneer) is your go to licensed auctioneer specializing in charity/benefit/gala live auctions. She’s been a licensed auctioneer in Texas since 2016 and have since called hundreds of various types of auctions.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

The initial shows launching video companion content are Book of Basketball 2.0 , Fantasy Footballers , The Misfits Podcast , H3 Podcast , The Morning Toast , Higher Learning with Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay , and The Rooster Teeth Podcast.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This week’s launch demo — one of many in the books already — follows weeks of tension between SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration, which approves test launches like this one. During its high-altitude test launch with SN8 two months ago, the company violated its FAA launch license.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2008

We're huge O'Reilly fans: Tim has always been socially oriented and more than four years ago gave Bookshare.org a license to distribute all of his books to disabled people around the world. Tim is the kind of person that holds immense influence because of his track record for spotting new trends.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

In addition to a print book, they have multimedia content that animates the characters and adds audio narration. I also watched them use licensed characters from top Asian media properties to create a fresh set of content. They first created original visual story content, and then added different languages.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Microsoft released the model under an open-source and open-weights license, so developers can use it to develop edge models or apps that run on phones or laptops. Thats why the theyre are spending more and more on non-public and specialty content that the license from publisher partners.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Flat World is a for-profit social enterprise that gives away its core textbooks under a creative commons license, and makes its money on ancillary products like a black and white print version for $30 (vs. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license!

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The startup’s mobile app integrates smartly with users’ Facebook graph and iOS address book to make for relevant matches. The business model is largely based on booking tickets for things to do with children (thus bringing in affilate revenue) and buying sponsored ‘romps’ ? BetterInternet.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Since then, t he company has tested several verticals — OBus, a bus-booking platform (also defunct); OExpress, a logistics delivery service; OTrade, a B2B e-commerce platform; OFood, a food delivery service, among others. Opera’s Africa fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Apart from the known consequence of discouraging scrutiny and improvement at large, there is speculation that perhaps this closed approach is due to the data not being ethically or legally obtained: for instance, that pirated copies of many authors’ books are ingested.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

Instead, they’re committing to an original series “inspired by” the book. The whole scheme might help illustrate why art can’t be reduced to a neat series of copyright licenses — rather than simply showing that “crypto bros aren’t sure how rights work.”. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Since then, Magnuson has provided his leadership insights multiple times for my blog and in 2020, I named his book, Stand Out! , as the best new leadership and business book for that year. That's where the site (and subsequent books) started. Not only that, but all our programs are also available for license.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But unlike Matt3o’s original release, though, the new Lord of the Rings keycaps are actually licensed by Middle-earth Enterprises (the company that owns the rights to key film and merchandise aspects of the The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings novels). Print Screen,” for example, becomes “teitho parf” — or literally, “write a book.”).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Lasica , a consultant and author of four books about emerging technologies. Her upcoming book “The Networked Nonprofit” will provide a social media roadmap for nonprofits. All materials created for the site are released under Creative Commons licenses so that other sites and blogs can freely reuse the content.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

The bundle features over 120 games, books, and software, including the Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Back 4 Blood, the Pathfinder and Warhammer rule books, and a 12-month license for GameMaker Studio 2. Gamers and developers all over the world have banded together in support of the Ukrainian people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Probably my most favorite part of the MagnaFlyer demonstration was easily cutting and pasting a Bookshare ebook I downloaded into the application and seeing it read it (it was a Creative Commons licensed book—so completely legal!). I was quite taken with MagnaFlyer’s smart approach to using a person’s available vision more effectively!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Newsela estimates that gross bookings have grown 115% over the pandemic, and that revenue grew 81%. There will be more than 11 million students using Newsela licensing by the end of 2021, Gross said. It declined to share revenue numbers or if it has hit profitability. 13 investors say lifelong learning is taking edtech mainstream.

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