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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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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. The news circulated all across the internet; in a poorly headlined Hollywood Reporter article, tweets, and YouTube videos. Copyright is messy.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Copyright Office. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work. Keep in mind that penalties for knowingly violating U.S.

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New York Times Encourages Staff to Create Headlines Using AI

Futurism

"Generative AI can assist our journalists in uncovering the truth and helping more people understand the world," the newspaper's new editorial guidelines for AI read, per internal documentation shared with Semafor. As Tani notes, this new suite of tools is the result of that effort.

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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. at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08 at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08 Be Helpful.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it.

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Startup failure: How to prevent online vandalism from killing your startup

The Next Web

When this happens, fast-growing networks start losing users en-masse (think ChatRoulette), online conversations enter the realm of the ridiculous (think YouTube comments) and online decisions may even end up leading to unpleasant consequences offline (think ransacked house of Airbnb host).

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