Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. Going forward, new countries that want to abide by the Treaty provisions would need to directly ratify it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities. Dozens of publishers and authors have signed contracts with Bookshare that confirm and support its work as an authorized entity as well.

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The Next Web

MAY 24, 2016

Do you own the copyright to your own technology? Creations such as graphics, web design templates, and software are all governed by copyright law, according to which the copyright owner is the creator/author of a given work. That’s not as unusual a question as you’d think – many startup founders don’t.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 24, 2015

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). UpCodes’ building code database is at the center of the lawsuit, because it contains material the ICC claims copyright on. ” Can the law be copyrighted?

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TechSpot

JULY 31, 2023

A new law was recently passed by the Italian parliament without a hitch, and the Authority for Communications Guarantees has now approved the rules highlighting its new powers. AGCOM's deliberation (680/13/CONS) is the agency's main "rule book" regarding online copyright. Read Entire Article

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Generative AI and copyright law: What’s the future for intellectual property? Image Credits: Sean Gladwell (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Are AI-generated works eligible for copyright protection? Copyright Office’s document and examine multiple legal developments in the space.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. With support of authors and publishers, we provide our international members with books that are targeted towards their specific needs and interests.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. A felony streaming bill, authored by Sen. On its fourth page, the bill outlines what would qualify as felony behavior under the law. Copyright is messy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. The most typical means of accessibility is to use software that reads the digital text aloud in a computer-synthesized voice. More than half of U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

An issue thats been in the news a lot lately is the unauthorized use of art and the bulk mining of books and articles , disregarding the copyright of authors , to train AI. In this near-dystopian context, its never been easier for authorities to surveil, imprison or kill people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. I was honored to be part of a WBU-convened expert team that authored the original draft of the treaty. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

I'll be speaking out more on copyright issues in the coming months. A recent article mentions why Benetech is concerned about orphan works: obscure works are hard to find the copyright owner, and it costs to much to hassle with. AUTHORS struggle, mostly in vain, against their fated obscurity.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He is also President and Managing Director of Digital Strategy for.orgSource , and my co-author of the Association 4.0 Pendo, Founding Member of Chicago Law Partners, LLC. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. Kimberly practices not-for-profit and corporate law.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

The controversial film Planet of the Humans , produced by Michael Moore, was taken down from YouTube on Monday because of a copyright infringement claim. In a statement to The Verge , director Jeff Gibbs denied any copyright violation in his film, which garnered more than 8 million views on YouTube. Photo: Planet of the Humans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. So, we shouldn’t have anything to fear from a bill entitled “Stop Online Piracy Act,” right? And then they go away.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

copyright law, our volunteers scanned the books they wanted to read and then were able to upload them to Bookshare so that others could enjoy these books as well. Some of this author's titles are exceedingly rare, with copies bringing hundreds of dollars when they can even be found in the book collectors' marketplace.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Federal authorities have accused a Minnesota man with trying to extort $150,000 from Major League Baseball after hacking into its computer system. The law enforcement agencies said in a news release that between 2017 through August of 2021, Streit operated a website where he illegally streamed the sports leagues’ live games for profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

The passage of SOPA and PIPA by the United States Congress and Senate would force social media platforms and other web sites that host user-generated content to pro-actively monitor and censor users to prevent them from posting words or images that may violate copyrights. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust. What’s next?

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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. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the weeks since that announcement, I've spoken to some of the country's leading corporate law experts to gain a better understanding of OpenAI's plan, and, more importantly, what it might mean for its mission to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2013 , Delaware enacted its own version of the law. As of 2022 , 68.2

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2021

But while he doesn’t mind his name being spit out by an algorithm that parrots its training data , Celis is concerned at the copyright implications of GitHub scooping up any code it can find to better its AI. What a machine then outputs is still blurry and going to be figured out.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

I’ll be talking about the latter as it relates to some of the ideas in my new book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine.). Social media professionals Janet Fouts and Lovisa William pinpointed a few: Copyright and identifying the brand with false information (Infographics etc).

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

How do you copyright that? Generative AI and copyright law: What’s the future for IP? s Competition and Markets Authority to continue their $7.3 Hidden in plain sight: 5 red flags for investors Two more from the TC+ team: SadFin : We’re close to peak pessimism around fintech , by Alex. by Gai Sher and Ariela Benchlouch.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. Many other authors and publishers have done the same thing out of the goodness of their hearts, frankly. pointed out that the authors have long supported disability access. Roy Blount Jr. Roy Blount Jr.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

But keep in mind that illegal activities like torrenting copyrighted material, buying prohibited goods, and hacking are still illegal even with a VPN. Any VPN provider operating from one of those countries can technically be forced by authorities to collect and fork over user data , so it's best to avoid them entirely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws. Later, I went and looked over at blip.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires. Describe the history of copyright law which go this in 1994: ???Computer

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

At issue in artists’ minds is diffusion models’ tendency to essentially copy and paste images — including copyrighted content — from the data that was used to train them. law, fair use doctrine permits limited use of copyrighted material without first having to obtain permission from the rightsholder.)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mark) Lee approached the problem initially from a legal perspective when he was still a Harvard law student. Amazon, as one example, has spent years building up a strategy to tackle IP theft , working with authorities both to identify and then prosecute bad actors. But it’s been a tricky problem for marketplaces more generally.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It seems our prediction that a Lord of the Rings -themed “JRR Token” cryptocurrency was destined for the fires of Mount Doom was accurate — the World Intellectual Property Organization (or WIPO) has declared that it violated a trademark belonging to the estate of author J.R.R. But, as they say, there were some that resisted.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. This is the key federal law affecting Internet use in schools, requiring any school district that receives E-Rate funding to filter or. Is your policy in sync with state law or district policies on cyber bullying, cell phone use and filtering? Lost productivity.

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