The Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit grant-making organization. Fostered by an initial gift from local philanthropist Mertie Buckman, it was established in 1995 to encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and to support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.

store.artsmemphis.com

ArtsMemphis exists to nurture this unique character and to magnify the city’s creative voice. We are a 45-year-old arts funding organization (the sixth largest in the United States), which provides operating and project support to 27 arts groups. The ArtsMemphis tagline is “your support matters” and indeed it does. As major fundraisers, grant-makers and arts promoters in the city, ArtsMemphis contributed more than $4 million to the Memphis arts community in 2007, and it is a fact that 95 cents of every dollar raised in our annual campaign is directed to our funded organizations.

]]> http://miltonmusing.com/2008/09/09/ecommerce-artsmemphis-store/feed/ http://miltonmusing.com/2008/09/09/newspaper-advertisement-gamerzdepot/ http://miltonmusing.com/2008/09/09/newspaper-advertisement-gamerzdepot/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:25:49 +0000 admin http://miltonmusing.com/?p=46 Here are recently designed newspaper advertisements for GamerzDepot. Gamerz Depot is a gaming store located in Olive Branch, Mississippi that also has an eCommerce business at GamerzDepot.com I also designed the logo and tag line.

Our owners have over 60 years of combined gaming experience. Added to this are the hundreds of years of experience our staff and reviewers … and gamerz like you … bring. We were gaming when the only dice were six-sided and long before video games were created. Yes, we have been gamerz that long! It has always been our desire to operate a game store … one where gamerz could afford the games and accessories they want.

Sterling Solutions LLC is uniquely qualified to assist firms in performing a comprehensive review and improvement of their supply chain processes and operations, including cost and service performance.  Sterling is a well-established firm with a reputation for quality work extending throughout virtually all industries.

Lifesigns is the leading multi-site provider of comprehensive, physician-managed physical examinations in the United States with a prevention mission that extends beyond clinics to lifestyle counseling and worksite coaching. Lifesigns partners with employers to provide onsite screening at the workplace and continuing support to manage identified risk factors through ongoing onsite wellness coaching.

Let’s take a look at what the U.S. Copyright Office has to say:

The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”

Copyright protects the particular way an author has expressed himself; it does not extend to any ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in the work.

Certainly, if you are in the United States, there is a clear understanding of how publicly available content can be used. Some however, choose to license their content. Let’s look at three the more popular content licenses:

Creative Commons Licensing : Variable licensing options available.
The Creative Commons licensing provides many options that allow you to choose how, and for what purpose your content is legally distributable. The options are varied and I recommend you take a look at this page for more information.

GNU Documentation License : Viral licensing aimed at making everything free and editable.
The GNU Documentation License is derivative of the GNU License for software. It is viral in nature meaning that all offshoots of the original work must carry the same license. Full editing privileges are extended to anyone who uses content from the original source. In order to create a commercial companion to a GNU licensed work, you must make a very clear distinction with no carry over from the GNU source to the commercial piece. If the distinction is not made clearly the viral nature of the GNU license will apply to your work rendering it freely distributable.

OPL (Open Publication License) : Licensing for distribution but not editing of the material.
The OPL is also a viral license which requires attribution. It also allows the author to restrict editing of the document in whole or in part under Section VI Licensing Options. The OPL license is favored by content creators who want to make their content easy to distribute but need to maintain control of the messages and how they are used.