Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

The trend had raised concerns, yet again, about the legality of using copyrighted work as training data for artificial intelligence. OpenAI is still fixing the issue. Users simply have to upload the photo they want to use and then instruct ChatGPT in natural language to create a Ghibli-style version of it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

From there, the company could choose to let the images stay up, issue a takedown, which removes the infringing post entirely, or use a territorial block, meaning the post stays live but isn’t viewable in territories where the company’s copyright applies. “We

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

Club Penguin Online, one of the largest Club Penguin fan servers, shut down Friday after The Walt Disney Company issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice earlier this week. It’s unclear if the child pornography arrest was related to the project’s broader moderation issues. That man was released on bail.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2010

I'm here in Geneva for the 20th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting. This is the international forum for discussing copyright issues, and it is the body considering the Treaty for the Visually Impaired (TVI).

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 23, 2021

The post #RiskyBusiness: Risk Management for Nonprofits: Copyright appeared first on 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. True or false: […].

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2021

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility blind Bookshare copyright IP Marrakesh Treaty print disabilities visual impairment WIPO'

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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2021

His stream was shut down shortly thereafter, giving his viewers — and himself — the impression that he was banned for violating YouTube’s copyright policies. However, Ahgren wasn’t actually struck with a copyright strike or a suspension. you could say the switch has been going well. The whole incident was just a case of confusion. “If

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TechSpot

JANUARY 10, 2024

OpenAI recently told members of the House of Lords that it is "impossible" to train large language models (LLMs) without using copyrighted material. The claim was in response to the UK's Communications and Digital Select Committee, which is looking into the legal issues involving current AI systems. Read Entire Article

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

An issue thats been in the news a lot lately is the unauthorized use of art and the bulk mining of books and articles , disregarding the copyright of authors , to train AI. Think of the corporations currently deploying such technologies , or the tech moguls driven by greed and a thirst for power.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Imagine you are in a work meeting, and people are discussing a technical issue that is in your area of expertise. You have had years of experience resolving technical issues just like the one being discussed! Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Copyright 2025, All Rights Reserved. Priority status: I know best.

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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. Here are some questions and answers I've prepared on this topic, based on my recent trip to Geneva to attend the first week of discussions on the issue.

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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. We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week. For example, we run Bookshare in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

The Treaty of Marrakesh, Top Issues: What’s the goal of the Treaty? 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. It does that in two main ways.

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TechSpot

MARCH 25, 2025

The file sharing service made it trivially easy for the average Joe to share and download copyrighted music with others online, threatening the livelihood of artists and record labels. Legal issues proved to be Napster's undoing, with the service. Napster's claim to fame came near the turn of the century. Read Entire Article

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. And, if a copyright holder doubts that your organization meets the requirement in making an accessible copy, they are welcome to file a legal complaint of copyright infringement and make the case. The concept of TIs uses U.S. In the U.S. And, the U.S.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I’ve heard there are lots of legal issues surrounding its use. Nonprofit attorney Kimberly Pendo, a founding member of Chicago Law Partners, is going to discuss the issues we all need to understand. Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. How careful do I need to be? Don’t guess about this.

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TechSpot

MARCH 25, 2025

The first conviction involved a "46-year-old man," who shared 74 terabytes of copyrighted movies and TV shows through torrent sites SuperBits and DanishBytes. Torrent Freak reports that a Hillerd court sentenced him to nine months in prison, with at least three months served before parole eligibility. The judge also ordered.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. There is a draft of the treaty that was finished on Friday, November 23, and many issues have been settled over the last year or two of negotiations.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

More than 90% of workers say theyve been influenced by Gen Z on issues of meaning at work, and more than six in 10 say Gen Z has made them more likely to speak up when they dont approve of something at work. Copyright 2025 by Wes Adams and Tamara Myles. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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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. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). and there’s a general feeling something is going to happen.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Chinese developer of the mobile game Pokmon: Reborn, Guangzhou Maichi Network Technology, recently issued a public apology, acknowledging its infringement of the Japanese brand Pokmon and announcing the game’s removal from app stores.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But Yuga Labs owns the copyright on its ape images, and PAYC and PHAYC have were booted from OpenSea apparently for violating its rules against copyright infringement. But there’s very little legal precedent surrounding NFTs at all, let alone their copyright implications specifically.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to do that, the company reimplemented several Java APIs, including the 37 that are at issue in the lawsuit. For everyone else, the lawsuit is about whether language compatibility is tantamount to copyright infringement. In the 1996 software copyright case Lotus v. Her loss also means that Google v.

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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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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Publishers are unhappy about their content being distributed for free and argue that the site infringes on their copyright. The court rejected the publishers’ requests that the sites be blocked immediately, instead declaring it an “issue of public importance” and allowing time for the scientific community to weigh in.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Technology in the Arts has just released a well-researched and well-written review of the legal issues surrounding the use of video footage, Social Media, Video Footage, and the Law: What performing arts managers need to know. It’s a timely publication, too: Arts marketers work with rapidly changing technologies on a daily basis. read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

I'll be speaking out more on copyright issues in the coming months. A recent article mentions why Benetech is concerned about orphan works: obscure works are hard to find the copyright owner, and it costs to much to hassle with. Orphan works article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian News.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

CD Projekt Red’s (CDPR) highly anticipated new roleplaying game Cyberpunk 2077 is having a bit of a rough release , and now you can add potential copyright issues while streaming to its list of launch-day hiccups. That’s even if you’re using the specific in-game setting designed to toggle off copyrighted music for this exact reason.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

She asked me to comment on a bunch of issues around Bookshare, and we prepared the comments below. The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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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. In addition, the Library of Congress is the agency responsible for issuing regulations supporting Section 121. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee. Section 121) , defines a special class of organizations known as authorized entities.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Projekt Melody briefly disappeared from Twitch due to a copyright dispute over her body Projekt Melody swears her body belongs to her — the purple hair, the cat-eared bow, and all the barely there clothing that strategically covers her up. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. Melody was banned from Twitch. million followers.

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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. We get a huge amount of pro bono assistance from the legal profession, both because of our social impact as a nonprofit, and because of the challenging and interesting issues we tackle.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

More copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram. The company announced today that it’s going to allow all page admins around the world to submit images and videos for rights protection, expanding the reach of the feature outside of the limited group of partners who piloted the image copyright launch.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. These approaches usually lock out people with disabilities. Citizen engagement is a core value of the Obama Administration. What makes the ACTA an exception?

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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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