Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2023
The article warns as we do in our book that the danger is that nonprofits will grab the software off the shelf before its limitations are understood. 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.
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’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 13, 2007
Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. Our flagship Martus software project marks its tenth anniversary of bringing strong crypto to human rights activists.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 16, 2013
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
All of this work helps us support the international effort for full implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty —a global copyright exception model that provides the legal framework for greater sharing of accessible books across national borders. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Benetech is one of the largest developers of software for human rights activists around the world. Wonderful stuff.
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