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Share, Use, Remix: An Overview of Creative Commons

NTEN

Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.

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Social Media, Video, and the Law

Wild Apricot

Tags: Arts organizations copyright Marketing nonprofit non-profit Non-profit Communications Non-profit technology nptech promotion publicity social media Video Videos.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

For individuals to hold offenders responsible for using your copyrighted content without permission would take legal intervention. Then publish on the social networks by linking back to the content, increasing your chances of protecting copyright. Consider the many data abuses Facebook has been embroiled in.

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Fundraising When Money Is Tight

NTEN

Copyright © 2009 by Mal Warwick. Tags: mal warwick NPTech NTEN Planning Fundraising. This post is adapted from his nineteenth book, Fundraising When Money Is Tight: A Strategic and Practical Guide to Surviving Tough Times and Thriving in the Future , published last year by Jossey-Bass.

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

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software. For this to work, the application must be governed by a copyright - this is what gives the original copyright holder the legal power to dictate how it may be duplicated. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.

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Blogging and the Law

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Tags: nptech , blogging , legal

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