Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The Kansas City Public Library. They have developed a way for anyone with a Kansas City public library card to use expensive professional applications like those from Adobe and Microsoft without owning them. They are building a free software lending library. How The Lending Library Will Work. The User Experience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2017

Get your design driver's license by taking a few of TechSoup's online design courses. Get your design license. They are geared for nonprofit and library staff that have little or no knowledge of the amazing world of Adobe Creative Cloud. understand and identify brand book elements. Let's face it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Bookshare has successfully piloted an international library for the blind, but we’ve barely begun to remedy the global book famine. Bookshare now has hundreds of titles in Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish, and we recently announced a partnership with the government of Qatar to develop an Arabic language service.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Huddle is offering its online service to charities and libraries at a one-time admin fee, and a very reasonable one at that. What Is a Perpetual License? Huddle Foundation , just this week, made the donation more accessible to charities by switching from a $99 per year admin fee to a $125 "perpetual license" admin fee.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Testing the tool To run our conformal prediction, my team used libraries of microplastic spectra from the Rochman Lab at the University of Toronto as the calibration set. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In this case, you could bring in a human expert to examine the polymer closely.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

This is especially a problem as the world moves to electronic books, which have license agreements (contracts, that are rarely looked at by consumers) that almost always prohibit making them accessible. Why should people with disabilities be denied library services because the book might be available for sale in an accessible format?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Family sharing will allow any group of Stadia users linked through Google’s Play Family Library system to use one digital license for a game purchase across multiple accounts. Google says you will need to have a valid payment method attached to share your library. There are some restrictions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2012

Over the past months, TechSoup has been answering the call from the community to provide short, video tutorials on topics of interest to nonprofits and libraries. Check out Microsoft's tutorials on the Microsoft Volume Licensing site. Want more information about using the Microsoft VLSC? Have ideas or requests for future videos?

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TechSpot

JULY 20, 2022

In a Q2 2022 earnings interview, Netflix executives hinted that their plans for an ad-supported subscription would not include the entire VOD library when it launches later this year. The problem stems from the company lacking the licensing to move some content to the cheaper tier.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy! But, allow the benefits of technology to reach far beyond the top of the pyramid.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Wouldn''t that create more demand for our Bookshare online library? We all want the same ebook that people without disabilities buy (sorry, I mean license) to work perfectly well for people who are blind, physically disabled or dyslexic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. 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. Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Apple doesn’t mention the licensing deal, but all 96 episodes that aired between 1983 and 1987 are currently available to stream. Apple bringing licensed content onto Apple TV Plus — something the company adamantly didn’t incorporate into its original strategy — could help solve some of the streaming service’s issues.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

A licensing deal between Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Amazon will broaden Prime Video’s streaming library and bring anticipated titles to the service after a brief run on Peacock. Photo Illustration by Omar Marques / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. It does so by offering an alternative to expensive music licensing platforms as well as free music options like YouTube’s Audio Library or Creative Commons ‘ music. Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Apple’s MFi program and iOS Developer Library are open to developers for any assistance in designing MFi accessories. For the manufacturing license, you’ll need to own your manufacturing facilities, and both licenses involve a credit review of your company.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

We at YouTube TV license content from our content providers to then provide to you. When content prices increase, the overall cost of streaming goes up for everyone. YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) June 30, 2020.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. It's certainly big news. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Or, as seen by a growing trend this year, developers deliberately sabotaging their own software libraries as a means of protest — turning software into “protestware.” It wasn’t a malicious actor hijacking and altering these legitimate libraries. The recent rise of protestware.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

While Amazon has allowed companies to build skills for Alexa and allows pretty much any consumer electronic device maker to integrate Alexa into a compatible product, the e-commerce giant has not licensed the underlying AI tech for use in other assistant-like products. Amazon is calling the new offering Alexa Custom Assistant.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Although some AVOs have permanent locations (such as in the back room of a historical home or at the library for a Friends of the Library), many do not — and meetings and documents move from home to home as officers change. These people are typically classified as “independent contractors” rather than employees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has sued Roblox for letting users upload music from Ariana Grande, Imagine Dragons, deadmau5, and other artists without paying a licensing fee. Roblox offers a library of audio files, 3D models, and other assets for building experiences.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books. See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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The Verge

APRIL 10, 2022

Other users on Reddit and Twitter also reported the issue with Rune Factory Oceans , Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition , Gex: Enter the Gecko , and for some, their entire digital library. PlayStation has yet to acknowledge the situation, and the game company didn’t immediately respond to The Verge ’s request for comment.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It marks a way for the company to expand on the value proposition of Disney Plus to international customers with the most crucial currency any streaming service has to offer: a bigger library of content. Star, unlike Hulu, doesn’t mean more licensing costs for Disney. Conversely, if you’re a US customer, you may feel a bit cheated.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Disney and Sony Pictures have signed a multi-year “content licensing agreement” that will bring new Sony theatrical releases, starting with its 2022 films, to Disney-owned platforms. Disney’s Hulu will also have access to “a significant number of library titles” as soon as this June, according to the release.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Apple Music initially introduced DJ mixes and mash-ups in 2016 through a partnership with Dubset Media Holdings to identify and pay for licensed music within mixes. Image: Apple. Apple Music DJ Mix.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Those include Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, and both current and library programming from CBS. The company will continue to license its series and films to other companies. Popular shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra were also licensed to Netflix.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

And on the voice side, Adthos compiled a library of hundreds of synthetic voices, including — according to Wedel — “Emmy Award-winning” voice actors and talents. But what’s unclear is whether all of those voice actors chose to be included in Adthos’ library in the first place.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Creators can either import their own music, so long as they own the rights to it, or have the effect sync with any song they pick from Instagram’s music library, which contains big hits and popular music for which Instagram pays the licensing fees.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

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