Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 5, 2009
We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Most of this community doesn’t have access to formal education, most of this community doesn’t have access to jobs and most of this community isn’t recognized by larger society as equals.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 18, 2012
Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous. Make no mistake, we are for the Internet, we are for jobs, we are for legal access to content, and we are for human rights and freedom of speech. But, we're not for piracy.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say. Most tech companies think this is the most counter-productive job and innovation killing bill they've seen in years.
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. So, in the U.S.,
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2023
On the one hand, was the “Evil Robots Overlords” view that we will never control AI and it will control us and take over all our jobs through automation. As people begin to use these creator tools in different fields and jobs, including fundraising as the example in the Chronicle piece illustrates, there are some benefits.
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. It has a statement encouraging national copyright exceptions for people with print disabilities as a Good Thing™.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 15, 2009
Mauer does a great job in capturing the advocacy position of the Reading Rights Coalition. And, the Authors Guild is suffering because the NFB and Reading Rights Coalition has done a great job of articulating the differences. This is a case of dueling moral high grounds. How does society choose between competing moral high grounds?
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