Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. I put together list of many resources for low cost or free stock images based on the recommendations from fans on Facebook, but here is a short list of the services more frequently mentioned as favorites from nonprofit folks. Here’s a round up of resources and advice. Content Visual'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 19, 2013

Our library is made possible both by a domestic copyright exception that makes it possible for us to add any book requested by a blind person to our library, as well as strong cooperation with publishers who provide many of their books directly to our library for free, including the rights to serve people in certain other countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

That's a huge difference compared to copyrighted works that we convert under the copyright exemption, which we have to keep under tight controls to restrict copyrighted works to only the use of people with bona fide print disabilities in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

In my prepared statement, I explained why well-balanced intellectual property laws inspire technology innovation and social good, and described how our Bookshare initiative models the good that copyright exceptions can create. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A free webinar for the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits often create content for awareness, fundraising, or educational purposes, and understanding copyright principles is essential. Register Now The post Blue Avocado Presents: Copyright Concerns for Nonprofits – Live Q&A appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. Unfortunately, we can’t export these books, as other countries have copyright laws that we wouldn’t violate. Funders like the U.S.

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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. Students do not have to be blind to qualify under the copyright exception. Bookshare services are freely available to any school in the U.S.

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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. It has a statement encouraging national copyright exceptions for people with print disabilities as a Good Thing™.

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VisionLink

APRIL 16, 2014

Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. The exchange and free flow of information makes for powerful systems of systems. So, let me end where we began.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). I write a fair bit of science fiction, and also write other stuff. I’m talking in this post about self-publishing eBooks.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

When players place the Farmers Airship on their farm, they receive free "wither protection" for the crops on their virtual farm. And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Do you have examples on this topic, has this happened to you?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Exciting new tools, including a free, open source Android ebook reader and a free web-based ebook reader along with an accessible bookshelf in “the cloud.” Free professional development for school districts across the country in order to increase utilization of Bookshare and serve as many students as possible. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. The majority of our members are U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Wonderful stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries. from the majority of IP owners we approach.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

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"). For individuals to hold offenders responsible for using your copyrighted content without permission would take legal intervention.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

Free at last. Free at last! Thank god, I''m free at last.''" Let Freedom Ring. Copyright © 2013. Permission is granted to republish this essay provided its source is identified as The Agnostic Patriot at www.agnosticpatriot.org and this copyright is included.' nearly 100 years after the Civil War had ended slavery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Our content is free to use, and free to share. The passage of SOPA and PIPA by the United States Congress and Senate would force social media platforms and other web sites that host user-generated content to pro-actively monitor and censor users to prevent them from posting words or images that may violate copyrights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

Your photos should not only resonate with your audience, it should tell a story, not be copyrighted, and be a decent photo (not blurry or poorly composed). You can take your own photos or use stock photography. Don’t forget to add your URL or logo. My favorite free tool for this is PicMonkey because it is very easy to use. (You

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

If we see an error in a book, we can't break the copyright by correcting our digital version. Bookshare’s collection of more than 80,000 books, newspapers and magazines, is free to qualified U.S. This entire process is completed by Friday afternoon so bestsellers can be proofed and uploaded to Bookshare as soon as possible.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. We share Creative Commons' belief in the free flow of information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2012

You can see another free recipe for Savory Grits with Sautéed Broad Beans, Roasted Fennel and Thyme on VegCookBook Club. Copyright © 2012. To get you started, the nice folks at Da Capo sent over a recipe from The Inspired Vegan: Molasses, Miso, and Maple Candied Sweet Potatoes.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

Free at last. Free at last! Thank god, I''m free at last.''" Let Freedom Ring. Copyright © 2014. Permission is granted to republish this essay provided its source is identified as The Agnostic Patriot at www.agnosticpatriot.org and this copyright is included.' nearly 100 years after the Civil War had ended slavery.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Copyright P. It’s free, and that’s all we can afford. Mueller [link]. Does it feel like you never find the right combination of technologies to just make things work? Do you lie awake at night and wonder how everything is going to get done, or why a new project was just dumped on your plate? We should get the __est thing.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You can use free tools like MusicallyDown or SnapInsta. Additionally, following trends is difficult for nonprofits when you take copyright challenges into account (organizations aren’t permitted to use a lot of trending audio). It can be hard to find ones that are appropriate and fit with your cause.

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2011

Today, 235 years later, the world measures the morality of a nation by the extent to which its people are free to live their own story, the extent to which its government secures to its people life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Marvel at the cacophony, for it is the story of a free people. © Copyright 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

On March 29th, we’ll be doing a FREE webinar hosted by Cloud4Good called “ The 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence, Bots, and Your Nonprofit.” Bots and other technologies can add huge value to our personal and professional lives by completing basic tasks for us and freeing up our time for other pursuits.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Best of all, this 7 step marketing process is easy to learn and will free your time to focus on more value-adding activities. When there are no rules, our minds are free to wander to thoughts of the future, or perhaps dwell on a particular issue of the past. Digital Marketing Plan Chapters. Chapter 1: Introduction.

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? Because it’s royalty-free they don’t have to pay you a dime even if they used footage of that awesome video you directed in one of their TV ads. Social media can totally suck too. Here’s why. And guess what?

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See3

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Here are the details: —————————————— Free Online Video Consultation at Nonprofit Technology Conference Not sure how to use video to its highest potential in telling your organization’s story and begin incorporating video into your messaging?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

In the simplest terms, SOPA would've created a "de facto blacklist of sites accused of infringing on copyright," Reitman said. Let's say you or even one of your supporters remixed a video that included a sample of copyrighted music, and this video was linked from your website. Why Should You Care?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

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." How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? The Brazilian government distributed this drug to each of their 203,000 AIDS patients free of charge.

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2010

Hurrah for the flag of the free. Today is the day to celebrate that we, the people, are free to have culture wars. Be proud of this voice, for it is the voice of a free people, alive to the challenges of today and the promises of tomorrow. © Copyright 2010. . … And the caissons go marching along. You’re a grand old flag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

(If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. Why didn't they link to the original context?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

It’s free, secular, and encourages people to linger. Bookshare started as the sharing of copyrighted and public domain books in a central repository authorized by the Chafee Amendment by people with print disabilities for their own use. I’ve walked through a few libraries, but I can say that Bookshare is unique within my experience.

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