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Apple loses copyright battle against iOS virtualization startup Corellium

TechSpot

On Tuesday, a US District Court in Fort Lauderdale shot down Apple's copyright claim against security software startup Corellium. The Cupertino tech giant took on the smaller company last year, filing a lawsuit alleging that it violated copyright law in creating an iOS virtualization system used to find security bugs.

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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. The lawsuit is intended to “quash a campaign of harassment designed to undermine important concerns” about the company’s remote test-proctoring software, according to the EFF.

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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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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. The most typical means of accessibility is to use software that reads the digital text aloud in a computer-synthesized voice. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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An ed-tech specialist spoke out about remote testing software — and now he’s being sued

The Verge

Between August 23rd and 24th, Ian Linkletter, a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), made a series of tweets criticizing a software that his school uses. The software was called Proctorio, an online test-proctoring tool that monitors students for suspicious behavior while they take virtual exams.

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Linux has been ported to run on Apple’s M1 Macs

The Verge

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. It’s a process that has angered Apple enough to file lawsuits against Corellium. Apple hasn’t designed its M1 Macs with dual-boot or Boot Camp in mind.

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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” We at Benetech are therefore a proponent of “social” DRM formats that allow interoperability with assistive technology (AT) devices and software.