Friday Five: Five Useful Articles for February 26, 2016
It’s been an eventful February in the nonprofit world—the death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, ongoing laws being proposed and passed in state legislatures, and, of course, the ever-closer April 15 deadline for annual tax filings.
Here are five links to help you through the cold (Okay, cold
for those of you in the northern half of the country. We live in L.A. We’re
only dimly aware of this thing called “weather”):
• The inimitable Gene Takagi at NEO law group has a set of 5
helpful fundraising tips for nonprofit organizations: http://goo.gl/lQQONN
• The conservative blog The
Federalist highlights some potential problems with Donald Trump’s veterans
charity donations: http://goo.gl/RHytHz
• The Nonprofit Quarterly is not impressed with Facebook’s
new “Facebook for Nonprofits” site. (ED—One small disagreement w/ Nonprofit
Quarterly: based on personal experience, some nonprofit orgs are not up to date
with Facebook pages, and will probably find the page useful— G.M.) http://goo.gl/VMZAmR
• JDSupra Business Advisor illuminates the additional
scrutiny that Congress is bringing to colleges’ large endowment funds: http://goo.gl/WmJQB8
• Finally, the creators of thatswhatshesaid, a new
one-woman show which extensively quotes other recent plays, are duking it out
with play publisher Samuel French over fair use Arts administrator Howard
Sherman has an interesting and balanced look at the case: http://goo.gl/fQJhPA
Written by Erin Pike and Courtney Meaker, thatswhatshesaid critiques the female
character descriptions in the ten most produced plays of 2015, but it’s
constructed entirely from quotations
from those ten plays, and used without the playwrights’ permission. * Samuel
French sent a cease-and-desist letter; the actress and director are fighting
back.
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*The concept of fair use allows a creator to quote other works for purposes of ‘criticism,’ but there isn’t a whole lot of straightforward precedent to rely on in general, and particularly with this case.
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