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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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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. and as far as I know, most of the other exceptions) law, there is no approval or authorization by other entities, whether government, publishing industry or the disability consumer organizations. By the way, there are other requirements in these proposals that I'm not commented on.

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New ‘felony streaming’ measure is aimed at piracy services, not Twitch streamers

The Verge

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. More importantly, there’s nothing in the text of the bill that suggests platforms’ moderation of everyday copyright violations would need to change.

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December 2010 Community Builder’s Chat Wrap-up #CommBuild

Amy Sample Ward

We heard from many people that there were too many holiday deadlines at work to make the chat so be sure to add your thoughts to the comments here after reading the archive to join in! And Claire Sale shared the British Red Cross guidelines: The British Red Cross values comments both complimentary and critical. Join the January Chat!

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What exactly is the Jodorowsky’s Dune crypto collective trying to make, anyway?

The Verge

The whole scheme might help illustrate why art can’t be reduced to a neat series of copyright licenses — rather than simply showing that “crypto bros aren’t sure how rights work.”. Spice DAO outlined its future plans in an inaugural governance proposal that was approved by 95 percent of token-holding voters. Now our mission is to: 1.

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How to Start a Nonprofit Organization.

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are governed by a board of directors; for-profits are governed by the owner(s) and, if a corporation, also a board of directors. Ask away in the comments section! Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 8:36 AM Labels: how to start a nonprofit , nonprofit , Pat Lewis , Robert Duea 1 comments: Nina Moore said.