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Club Penguin Online shuts down after receiving copyright claim from Disney

The Verge

Club Penguin Online, one of the largest Club Penguin fan servers, shut down Friday after The Walt Disney Company issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice earlier this week. According to BBC , a London man involved with the server was arrested on suspicion of child pornography. In all honestly, it isn’t worth it”.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In September 2007, the U.S. with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. Benetech is working on a new program that will serve these students who are not qualified under the copyright exemption. There are some 7.5 million students (15% of the U.S.

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The music industry has taken another step toward a legal fight with Twitch

The Verge

Amazon received a “blistering” letter last Thursday about copyright infringement and Twitch’s nonexistent licensing deals with major music rights holders, Variety reports. The document accuses Twitch of allowing streamers to play copyrighted music without getting the proper licensing to do so. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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The Wealth of Networks, Part II

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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