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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. He came back the next day and gave me unbelievably positive news. And, the U.S.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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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. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights

Tech Soup

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To good news, you don't need to write a blog to find people and to participate in the conversation. news or web feeds ???? or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? the work of copyright holders.

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