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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

Byte Technology

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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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. And then they go away.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. In addition, the school’s primary contact would be reminded of this information by email as well. What is your typical response time to a school contact?

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Lame spam of the day: CitiBank Account Alert

Robert Weiner

But the really lame part is that the links at the end (Contact Customer Service, View Our Privacy Statement, Add Us to Your Address Book) point to americanexpress.com. Contact Customer Service (link leads to [link]. Copyright 2012 CitiBank. Then there are some typos. Sender: CitiBank@email.citibank.com. All rights reserved.

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Bookshare’s Status as an Authorized Entity under Section 121

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities.

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Lame spams of the day: messages from key.com

Robert Weiner

If you have concerns about the validity of this message, please contact the sender directly. For questions about Key's e-mail encryption service, please contact technical support at 888.764.6802. Copyright © 2013 KeyCorp®. If you are not the addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender.

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Lame spam of the day: Notice from WesternUnion) : Account Deactivate.

Robert Weiner

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT US. This one is kind of funny. Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence. Thank you for using Western Union! -. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.

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