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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S. My impression from additional tweets, emails, posts and articles is that the French are really leading the charge against a treaty. Tags: print disabled blind SCCR18 copyright copyfight SCCR Bookshare WIPO.

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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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Twitch apologizes to streamers for its mishandling of music copyright

The Verge

Twitch published a blog post today with the relatively anodyne title “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch.” Twitch was unprepared for a sudden onslaught of copyright takedown notices from the music industry that started back in May. What was in it, however, was anything but. The bottom line?

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Twitch warns streamers another wave of copyright strikes is coming

The Verge

Twitch has received a “batch” of new takedown notices from music publishers over copyrighted songs in recorded streams (known as VODs), the company said in an email to streamers today. A lot of that music is copyrighted, which leads to situations like these mass takedowns when the music industry wants to get paid.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Getting some kind of licensing deal is critically important, because it will take many years for the Marrakesh Treaty to be fully implemented with its copyright exceptions. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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6 signs you might be a bad listener and what to do instead

Fast Company Tech

An office mate might say Im really struggling to get through my emails! I have over 200 unread emails sitting in my inbox! I have over 1,000 emails that I need to respond to! Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Copyright 2025, All Rights Reserved. Instead of offering either of these, however, you respond, Just 200?

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Twitch makes it easier for streamers to wipe out their old videos to avoid copyright strikes

The Verge

Twitch announced in an email to streamers that the site has added new tools today to help creators see where they stand with takedown requests and copyright strikes. It’s a smart move because it gives streamers better tools to play on the right side of copyright law. (If