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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

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Opening Keynote Ignite the Power: How Associations Create Irresistible Trends Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey You can count on award-winning PR strategist, Adele Gambardella for a unique take on the art and science of getting noticed. But Industry 4.0 Sponsored by Multiview. Kimberly A.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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Accessibility and ACTA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. These approaches usually lock out people with disabilities. Disability advocates should, at minimum, press for a seat at the ACTA table.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access. Followers of Museum 2.0

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). and there’s a general feeling something is going to happen.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. View more presentations from kanter.

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