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‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000

The Verge

Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “ Disaster Girl ” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000. Photo: David Roth.

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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

We have also created standards for the exchange of information about disaster shelters and about client records. Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. As the builder of CommunityOS , we are keenly focused on the need to move data around easily.

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You need these must-have clauses in your freelance contracts

The Next Web

Copyright assignments and/or permissions. This is an extremely hairy issue, and before determining what clauses you should have in your contract, you should brush up on copyrights and standard practices in the type of freelancing you do. Like I said, copyrights are hairy because they cover so many different scenarios.

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It’s 2013: Where’s your nonprofit’s social media policy?

ASU Lodestar Center

Crediting other sources: As it is common practice on social media to re-post images and articles from other sources, we included links to copyright and Creative Commons instructions to better inform our employees on these legal restrictions and discussed some best-practices. Connect with Colleen on Twitter and LinkedIn. Like this article?

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

Tech Soup

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. Mercy Corps publishes his writing in the form of exclusive stories for newspapers and magazines.

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LMS Security and Compliance: Steps for Protection and Adherence

Gyrus

Challenge 4: Content Protection and Copyright Challenge: Safeguarding content from unauthorized use and plagiarism. This includes copyrighted learning materials and other valuable assets. Solution: Inform users about data practices, obtain explicit consent, and respect user rights (access, rectification, erasure, withdrawal).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

TechCrunch

“Key, recurring issues relate to copyright licensing and infringement, disclosures and statements in endorsements, compliance with securities laws, and defamation.” Today, wind power and wave action are just two technologies leading investors to take a closer look at ocean conservation technology, reports Tim De Chant. .

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