Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Founders Fund and Paradigm are leading an investment in a platform that’s aiming to wed music rights with NFTs, allowing users to buy shares of songs through the company’s marketplace, earning royalties as the music they’ve invested in gains popularity. ” No, NFTs aren’t copyrights.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. public school population) who could benefit from accessible books but currently go without them or get them at great cost in both time and funds to schools and educators. There are some 7.5 million students (15% of the U.S.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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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VisionLink

APRIL 16, 2014

Moreover, raising money specifically for data management is much more difficult than raising funds for particular causes. If we don’t compensate organizations in some way for their data, then we require them to divert funds away from other areas and potentially impact their ability to help their own communities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

million in pre-Series A funding. The new funding was led by Berlin-based Point Nine Capital, which focuses on SaaS and online marketplaces. ” The new funding will be used for hiring, so UpCodes can add new features more quickly, including ones to automate calculations. This brings its total raised so far to $4.15

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

The controversial film Planet of the Humans , produced by Michael Moore, was taken down from YouTube on Monday because of a copyright infringement claim. In a statement to The Verge , director Jeff Gibbs denied any copyright violation in his film, which garnered more than 8 million views on YouTube. Photo: Planet of the Humans.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Pex , a startup aiming to giving rightsholders more control over how their content is used and reused online, has raised $57 million in new funding. Pex says the new funding will allow it to continue scaling the Attribution Engine. Pex CEO Rasty Turek. ” Not that Pex is relying entirely on regulators. .”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Last week, the app was taken down , but only because of a copyright infringement claim from Uber. ” As it adds Jeremy Milken to the partnership, Watertower Ventures nears $50 million close for its new fund. UberCheats is now live! Download the Chrome extension to detect if UberEats has underpaid you.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The whole scheme might help illustrate why art can’t be reduced to a neat series of copyright licenses — rather than simply showing that “crypto bros aren’t sure how rights work.”. Buying Dune’s script doesn’t give you the copyright — but it earns you lots of publicity. That said, a lot of them probably aren’t.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Through this three-year project—made possible with support from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind as well as India’s adoption of a new copyright exception for people with print disabilities —we will pilot Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Tags: roundup bigsociety bookmarks conference copyright facebook irl list millennials nonprofits photography postalicious privacy resources sharing slacktivism socialchange socialmedia sxsw virtualworlds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The system, which is designed to navigate the complexities of copyright claims while also fairly compensating artists, offers an alternative to existing free music platforms, including YouTube’s own Audio Library and Creative Commons’ legal music for videos, for example.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit. It’s unclear whether Ghostwriter, too, was trained on licensed or copyrighted code. That includes insecure code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Photoshare – This collection focuses on images that depict international health as part of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project and was funded by USAID. Here’s a round up of resources and advice. That’s not the definition of fair use.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

million USD) Series A funding round to help further grow its business. First launched in January 2021, Uppbeat helps to eliminate the headaches that come with copyright claims on music used within creator content. Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6 million GBP ($6.15

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But not everyone agrees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

The company raised a $55 million Series A round from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto investment arm last November, less than three months after bagging $16 million in seed funding led by Founders Fund and Paradigm. The copyright of a song is what’s scarce, not the audio itself, which can be streamed by any user, Blau explained.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

To avoid violating copyright, Surreal requires that the client has the right to the content they upload for moderation. That’s in part why Surreal starts with enterprise use rather than making it available to individual users. Companies like Surreal are also posing new legal challenges. Who owns the machine-generated images and videos?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Jim Fruchterman and Marcia Adler During our party, we also honored Social Profit Network's Robert Levenson, the Skoll Foundation and the Omidyar Foundation which provided vital philanthropic funding to expand Bookshare over the last decade. copyright law. Our breakthrough with Bookshare was to put our users in charge of the collection.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. House Representative Anna G.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

25,000 copyright protection per asset. With a shared vision from the Founders Fund, Yay Images got an investment in 2014 from top Norwegian serial entrepreneurs and StartupLab for the world’s first unlimited download stock media product. million vectors and 250,000 HD/4K Videos. Unlimited team members with the Growth Plan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

We just won a $5 million competition that will fund our DIAGRAM R&D center to tackle the problem of image accessibility for people with print disabilities. We’re helping the environmental movement become more effective through using Miradi to manage its conservation projects and to better steward environmental assets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. Bookshare is allowed to serve only students with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The app and the company behind it have been helping people enjoy better wine since 2010, and now the startup has raised $155 million with its Series D round – a sum over twice as large as all of its previous funding to date. Photo Copyright Nader Khouri 2018. This brings the company’s total funding to $221 million to date.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 15, 2012

© Copyright 2011 Online Payment Center, South House, Black Prince Road, US SE1 7SJ. BASED ON THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED NOT TO RESPOND TO ANY MAIL OR FAX CONCERNING YOUR FUND FROM ANY BODY WHO CLAIM TO BE OR YOUR AGENT AS YOUR PAYMENT IS NOW READY TO BE TRANSFERRED IMMEDIATELY. . • Get the scoop on new stores, brands and features.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Yet that company — later renamed Teleparty — was just the beginning, argue two young companies that have raised seed funding. The other, a four-year-old, Bay Area-based startup, has raised $3 million in previously undisclosed seed funding, including from 500 Startups. Notably, Rabbit eventually ran aground. ”).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Shutterstock’s recently launched Contributors Fund reimburses creators whose work is used to train AI art models, while OpenAI licensed a portion of Shutterstock’s library to train DALL-E 2, its image generation tool. Bria isn’t the only venture exploring a revenue-sharing business model for generative AI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

He told us the fees were for documents involving business formation, funding, various agreements, and intellectual property registrations. Structure depends on various factors: the nature of the business, its growth potential, funding requirements, liability considerations, and tax implications.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Copyright P. Do you have the necessary funding, staff time, and understanding of your goals and needs to support the technology you’re adopting? Mueller [link]. Does it feel like you never find the right combination of technologies to just make things work?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

An AI platform for the film industry, Filmustage , is today announcing new funding. The latest funding, which totals $550,000, includes backing by Flyer One Ventures, Geek Ventures, Vesna Capital and Imaguru and will go toward an international expansion that will make the product available in multiple foreign languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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