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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Best free YouTube downloaders

Digital Trends

These video downloaders are quick and easy to use for grabbing favorites, but all copyright laws still apply.

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#RiskyBusiness: Risk Management for Nonprofits: Copyright

Blue Avocado

The web designer downloads the image from a website of a nonprofit that does similar work, and the other nonprofit has provided an email saying they don’t mind if you use the image. The post #RiskyBusiness: Risk Management for Nonprofits: Copyright appeared first on Blue Avocado. True or false: […].

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Major record labels sue Charter Communications again for alleged copyright infringement

The Verge

Several record labels are suing an ISP for copyright infringement | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A group of major record labels has filed a new lawsuit against Charter Communications alleging that the company has failed to address its subscribers’ copyright infringement of musical works. flagrant and serial infringers”.

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GitHub reinstated a YouTube video downloader that the RIAA claimed was a piracy tool

The Verge

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. It alleged that the tool “was designed and is marketed” for illegally saving copyrighted music, violating Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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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. We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And then they go away.

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Benetech's Statement to the Treaty Delegates in Marrakech

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our library is made possible both by a domestic copyright exception that makes it possible for us to add any book requested by a blind person to our library, as well as strong cooperation with publishers who provide many of their books directly to our library for free, including the rights to serve people in certain other countries.

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