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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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How Gen Z is shaping what meaningful work looks like for all workers

Fast Company Tech

Nearly four in 10 have turned down a job with a company that doesnt align with their values. We believe that now and into the future every job can, and should, be meaningful with the help of a great leader. What if all jobs were meaningful? Imagine a world where every job is designed to be sustainable and fulfilling.

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Moonvalley launches an AI video generator built for moviemaking

Fast Company Tech

The model was trained exclusively on video content either owned or fairly licensed by Moonvalley, avoiding the copyright gray zones that make much generative content legally fraught. I think youre going to see new jobs, he says. What sets Marey apartand has caught the attention of risk-averse studiosis its training data.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.,

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New ‘felony streaming’ measure is aimed at piracy services, not Twitch streamers

The Verge

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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