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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Why is Google Screaming?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm feeling a little overwhelmed and it didn't help much when I googled something to see the Screamer inside the Google logo. Is google highlighting fine art? I really, really, really wanted to put a smile emoticon :-) in the face but damn it isn't licensed under Creative Commons By License. Google must.

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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the left column you can see what would appear to be the ideal traits of a professional curator, while on the right you can immediately recognize the ones of scrapers, republishers, cheap aggregators and other “thin” publishers as Google would call them. ” He says that copyright infringement is not theft.

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Fight Hunger Announces Video Content Winner!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You should also keep an eye on licensing and copyright. We made it clear that our contest was using a Creative Commons License and recommended using Revver. but YouTube/Google are the most popular online video services and it's not clear whether they respect the Creative Commons Licenses.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. 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." In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.

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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

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Would you be surprised to learn that images account for 26% of the 40–60 billion searches that happen on Google each month? This provides Google’s crawlers with context for what topic that image relates. This provides Google’s crawlers with context for what topic that image relates. Avoid Copyright Infringement.

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture.

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