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Facebook Gaming will now allow partnered streamers to play copyrighted music

The Verge

Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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Voicy wants to pwn gamers with audio memes

TechCrunch

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips — which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. Dank audio memes anyone?

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This tool allows nonprofits to easily create Web-based Internet “TV” stations. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/internetstats.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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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Project Gucciberg offers classic audiobooks read by an AI deepfake of Gucci Mane

The Verge

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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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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