The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This release adds a second audio track when streaming to Twitch which will be saved to the VOD instead of the stream audio. For the uninitiated: it’s normal to play music in the background of live streams, but issues around copyright mean that it can be dangerous. Though, personally, I believe that’s wishful thinking.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan. Its business thesis is that demand for audio far outstrips the ability of studio-produced human-spoken voiceovers to deliver.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. Article 2(c).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Unfortunately, it’s too late for the authors to make much headway on their argument, which is that allowing purchasers of ebooks to have them read aloud by synthetic speech trespasses on the audio rights for their books. But that has nothing to do with whether distributing text ebooks is a violation of the separate rights for an audio book.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The system, which is designed to navigate the complexities of copyright claims while also fairly compensating artists, offers an alternative to existing free music platforms, including YouTube’s own Audio Library and Creative Commons’ legal music for videos, for example. Browsing Uppbeat’s catalog is easy, too.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. The majority of our members are U.S.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The issue that Soundtrack is solving is pretty simple: if music is copyrighted, you can’t use it while you’re streaming unless you have the rights to those songs. If you do happen to use copyrighted music during a broadcast, there’s not a whole lot Twitch can necessarily do because it’s being played live.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

It accuses Roblox — a massively popular, kid-focused platform for games and social experiences — of hosting a shared library of copyrighted but unlicensed songs. Roblox offers a library of audio files, 3D models, and other assets for building experiences. It also notes that users pay for uploading audio files with in-game currency.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This historic international copyright exception treaty paves the way for a future in which people who cannot read regular printed materials can have equal access to books, regardless of where they live. There is still much to do, however, before the treaty takes full effect.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

First, they represent the intrinsic value of copyright ownership, and second, the emotional value of owning something scarce that’s associated with your favorite artist. That’s why at Royal, Blau and his co-founder JD Ross (who also co-founded homebuying startup Opendoor) have chosen to apply NFTs to the copyrights behind songs.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

Using machine learning, MSCHF created an audio deepfake of Gucci Mane reading a selection of classic texts from Little Women to Beowulf. Audio deepfakes are now pretty common (listen to this clone of Joe Rogan for a good example ), to the point where they’ve been used to commit fraud. Is this copyright infringement?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

These will enable educators to easily assign accessible books to students, and allow students to access these materials – available in mp3 and DAISY audio – on multiple devices of their choosing, whether at home, on the move, or at school. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

First launched in January 2021, Uppbeat helps to eliminate the headaches that come with copyright claims on music used within creator content. 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.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Additionally, following trends is difficult for nonprofits when you take copyright challenges into account (organizations aren’t permitted to use a lot of trending audio). Yes, we have done trends and used popular audio, but they don’t perform better than our other content.

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The Verge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Rocket League ’s fourth season kicks off on Wednesday, bringing some big changes to tournaments, a setting to turn off copyrighted music, and a new cowboy-themed car. Season 4 will also add a new setting that allows players to turn off copyright-protected music in the game, which could help streamers avoid getting DMCA takedown notifications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Audioboo is a social network of audio recordings. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It was again a grant from the Lavelle Fund (our third) that allowed us to develop the ability to provide accessible MP3 audio versions of our materials and realize the enormous potential impact of mobile reading options for individuals with print disabilities. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Instagram has posted its guidelines for using copyrighted music during live videos, Stories, and other posts on the platform, and part of the announcement includes a new update to the notification that pops up to tell users they’re using unlicensed art in ways that violate its rules. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Audio presents an even tougher challenge. A report published this month from podcast marketing company Chartable says 17,000 shows launch weekly, and to moderate them would mean scanning audio, whether that be with actual human ears, transcripts, or software, and then discerning whether they cross the line.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Hearo has also, unsurprisingly, focused a lot of its efforts on sound, aiming to ensure that when multiple streams of audio are being created at the same time — say users are watching the basketball playoffs together and also commenting — not everyone involved is confronted with a noisy feedback loop. ”).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stable Diffusion was trained on a data set that includes copyrighted works — and even private medical records.). Beyond Stable Diffusion, Stability AI claims to have other commercializable projects in the works, including AI models for generating audio, language, “3D” and even video. House Representative Anna G.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The company is in the crosshairs of legal cases that allege that it infringed on the rights of millions of artists by developing AI art tools using web-scraped, copyrighted images. In any case, Stability AI hasn’t shied away from controversy historically.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Given that our goal was being as open as possible, it followed that our license choices were essentially around licenses that allowed for the greatest possible use and re-use because our initial hypothesis was, and continues to be, that being open allows us to fulfil our mission better than a traditional copyright model allows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

It's still a journey we are on and we've had many success till date - Skype reading sessions across countries, helping us get books to children across the country, audio books created for the blind , iPad apps being made of our content and so much more. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Stability AI is in the crosshairs of a legal case that alleges the company infringed on the rights of millions of artists by developing its tools using web-scraped, copyrighted images. While generative AI art tech marches forward, tools like SDXL have landed companies in hot water over the way they’ve been built and commercialized.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

11Sight : Browser-based video/audio call widget that can be placed on your website to quickly connect potential customers with your sales team, then track leads and integrate that data into your CRM accordingly. Copyright Delta : A blockchain-based platform for verifying and managing who owns the rights to a piece of media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) For information about our event webcasts and remote participation, see [link] If you miss the live chat, catch the podcast audio video at MediaBerkman, at [link]. second enclosure???--the s about the money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

It soon began making its own devices with Sonos’ technology, including speakers and other audio equipment that competed directly with Sonos’ speakers and other products in the marketplace. Adam Mossoff. But Google merely used this deal to gain access to Sonos’ technology.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Within the span of a few months, several lawsuits have emerged over generative AI tech from companies including OpenAI and Stability AI, brought by plaintiffs who allege that copyrighted data — mostly art — was used without their permission to train the generative models.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Avoid Copyright Infringement. In Google, you also have the option to filter out copyrighted images under the tools section. Here’s a list of equipment and software I’ve used in the past to create 5-10 minute demo videos: Microphone: Audio-Technica. In terms of style, I like to keep things simple.

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