Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. and as far as I know, most of the other exceptions) law, there is no approval or authorization by other entities, whether government, publishing industry or the disability consumer organizations. The concept of TIs uses U.S. In the U.S. I'm not aware of any litigation in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c).

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The Next Web

MAY 24, 2016

Do you own the copyright to your own technology? Creations such as graphics, web design templates, and software are all governed by copyright law, according to which the copyright owner is the creator/author of a given work. That’s not as unusual a question as you’d think – many startup founders don’t.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to the new rules, social networks can only immediately take down content involving violence, drugs, or nudity, or if they encourage crime or violate copyrights. The Brazilian government's Twitter account said the decree "forbids the removal of content that. Removal of any other content will require a court order.

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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. It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. More importantly, there’s nothing in the text of the bill that suggests platforms’ moderation of everyday copyright violations would need to change.

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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. Benetech is working on a new program that will serve these students who are not qualified under the copyright exemption. There are some 7.5 million students (15% of the U.S. They deserve an equal shot at learning and realizing their potential.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! copyright exception. After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Amazon received a “blistering” letter last Thursday about copyright infringement and Twitch’s nonexistent licensing deals with major music rights holders, Variety reports. The document accuses Twitch of allowing streamers to play copyrighted music without getting the proper licensing to do so. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). UpCodes’ building code database is at the center of the lawsuit, because it contains material the ICC claims copyright on. ” Can the law be copyrighted?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Copyright assignments and/or permissions. This is an extremely hairy issue, and before determining what clauses you should have in your contract, you should brush up on copyrights and standard practices in the type of freelancing you do. Like I said, copyrights are hairy because they cover so many different scenarios.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. which has secured a series of legal victories.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

government is consulting on whether to let tech firms use copyrighted material to help train AI models unless the creators explicitly opt out. The titles of the 12 tracks spell out: “The British government must not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies.” “The U.K. a world leader in AI. . “The U.K.

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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.”. Spice DAO outlined its future plans in an inaugural governance proposal that was approved by 95 percent of token-holding voters. Now our mission is to: 1.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The accounts were attempting to push back against allegations of human rights abuses by the Chinese government against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. Alongside it, Twitter has also detailed a campaign it discovered in Tanzania, which used copyright complaints to harass members and supporters of the FichuaTanzania human rights group.

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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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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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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

TikTok’s video removals by and large do not stem from government requests or copyright complaints. TikTok says it only received around 1,300 copyright removal requests and 45 government takedown requests (mostly from India), and it did not comply with all of those requests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. And, in many of these places, we’re helping the activists avoid censorship and surveillance by the government. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This historic international copyright exception treaty paves the way for a future in which people who cannot read regular printed materials can have equal access to books, regardless of where they live. There is still much to do, however, before the treaty takes full effect.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The lists are supported with federal funding; therefore, messages that appear to be political in nature, partisan, lobbying, or in any way perceived as in violation of the law or against relevant government policy are prohibited.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone. Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Google has published an open letter about a newly proposed government regulation that would compel it to pay media outlets for news content. We need to let you know about new Government regulation,” reads the letter linked from the pop-up from Google Australia’s Managing Director Mel Silva. Screenshot: Google.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

While the meeting was going on, we heard that Spain’s government had forwarded the treaty to their parliament for ratification. We’re doing a ton of work with partners in India , the first country to ratify it, to allow people in India to take full advantage of India’s now-favorable copyright environment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Non-fungible tokens may be revolutionizing the way we own and transact with digital assets in the 21st century, but they’re no different than old-school physical assets in one important way: They’re governed by a legal framework which, in many respects, is rooted in the 20th century.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In underdeveloped countries, the biggest problem we face is that copyright issues have not been addressed by government in the local area," Viji told the magazine. "We In countries outside the U.S., getting permission to scan and upload books in accessible formats can be a slow and complicated process. "In

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2011

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, Three hundred million Americans, each with our own story, each of us self-evidently endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

That rule specifies that “video services” must pay a quarterly franchise fee to local governments, unless they’re part of a larger internet service package or operate wirelessly. But an increasing number of local governments see these fees as an opportunity to recover money from the services that are slowly replacing cable TV.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

However, the onset of vandalism could make network effects work in reverse if the system doesn’t scale its ability to govern user activity. YouTube removing pornographic/copyrighted content and Quora collapsing ‘joke answers’ (as the community refers to them) are examples of removing such noise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

I can't share the specifics because of copyright issues, but it was informative to hear the lawyer's perspective and it has prompted some important insights for me. we do have information and other policies that cover things like personal use of the internet, phone etiquette, crimes against humanity, copyright, bad attitude, and ugly pants.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 15, 2012

© Copyright 2011 Online Payment Center, South House, Black Prince Road, US SE1 7SJ. between the Government of Nigeria and the Metropolitan Police London, to. . • Get the scoop on new stores, brands and features. links lead to [link] A second version came from no-reply@stumblemail.com).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For within these keyboards was bound the strength and the will to govern any device. It includes the Tolkien Estate, which owns the copyrights to the books, and New Line Cinema / Warner Bros., Eighty-four keys to the 75 percent designs, great typists and gamers of the digital halls. excerpt, The Lord of the Keys.

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