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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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A TikToker sues Roblox for using her viral Charli XCX dance without permission

Fast Company Tech

In a lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles, Kelley Heyerthe creator of the dance set to Charli XCXs hit songalleges that Roblox used her choreography in the update before finalizing negotiations to officially license the dance, as first reported by Polygon. We remain willing and open to settle and hope to come to a peaceful agreement.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, this is an in-depth report on the two days I just spent at the end of last week in Geneva. There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled.

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College student sues Proctorio after source code copyright claim

The Verge

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the remote testing company Proctorio on behalf of Miami University student Erik Johnson. After Johnson refused, Proctorio filed a copyright takedown notice, and three of the tweets were removed. Photo by Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images.

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Disney sues to keep its Avengers copyrights assembled

The Verge

The lawsuits, covered earlier today by The Hollywood Reporter , were filed in New York and California against the heirs of Steve Ditko , Don Rico , Don Heck , and Gene Colan , as well as Stan Lee’s brother and Marvel collaborator Lawrence Lieber. They’re an attempt to head off litigation that might follow from those notices.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

To wit, one common theme that came from our recent profiles of Expensify and NS1 is the centrality of file sharing (or, illegal file sharing if you are on that side of the fence) and internet infrastructure in the origin stories of the two companies. That’s peculiar, because the duo honestly couldn’t be more different.

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ROM site owner owes Nintendo $2.15 million after representing himself in piracy lawsuit

TechSpot

It was back in 2019 when Nintendo filed a lawsuit against RomUniverse. The Japanese gaming giant was seeking millions of dollars for copyright and trademark infringement from a site that was reportedly offering memberships for $30 per year, which allowed users to download an unlimited number of ROMs with higher.

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