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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Federal judge delivers first major AI copyright ruling against startup

TechSpot

The case, filed in 2020, accused Ross Intelligence of reproducing materials from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw legal research database to build a competing AI-powered legal platform. Judge Bibas rejected Ross Intelligence's fair use defense, a key argument used by AI companies in copyright disputes. Read Entire Article

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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. 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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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

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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Building-code compliance startup UpCodes gets $3.36M in pre-Series A funding

TechCrunch

The company also recently won a legal victory when United States District Court Judge Victor Marrero granted UpCodes its motion to dismiss a false advertising and unfair competition lawsuit filed against it by the International Code Council (ICC). “When Americans file their taxes every year, they’re not cracking open the tax code.

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Data Pipeline with Airflow and AWS Tools (S3, Lambda & Glue)

Towards Data Science

And, when it comes to data engineering solutions, it’s no different: They have databases, ETL tools, streaming platforms, and so on — a set of tools that makes our life easier (as long as you pay for them). The idea is simple: create a bucket and store files in it. not sponsored. S3 is AWS’ blob storage.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. Foter is an online database of royalty free images. Clker is an online database of royalty free clip art. Foter :: foter.com.

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