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. Compare that to the fair use exception, which has plenty of case law.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

After Johnson refused, Proctorio filed a copyright takedown notice, and three of the tweets were removed. Copyright holders should be held liable when they falsely accuse their critics of copyright infringement, especially when the goal is plainly to intimidate and undermine them,” said EFF Staff Attorney Cara Gagliano in a statement.

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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. On its fourth page, the bill outlines what would qualify as felony behavior under the law. Copyright is messy. A felony streaming bill, authored by Sen.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. The report is intended primarily for arts and performance organizations, but it has a lot of material that's useful to anyone who works with online media, including great summaries of what is and isn't covered under public domain and fair use.

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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. True equality of access means the ability to buy ebooks like the general public and to be assured that assistive technology will work with those ebooks. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

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. Students do not have to be blind to qualify under the copyright exception. Bookshare services are freely available to any school in the U.S.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. Wylio – This is a searchable archive of public domain or creative commons licensed photos that bloggers can use.

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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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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. Why have public decision-making? These approaches usually lock out people with disabilities. Why have a legislature?

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Nonprofits often create content for awareness, fundraising, or educational purposes, and understanding copyright principles is essential. Register Now The post Blue Avocado Presents: Copyright Concerns for Nonprofits – Live Q&A appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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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.”. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Buying Dune’s script doesn’t give you the copyright — but it earns you lots of publicity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The Commission has one year to do research, hold public hearings and make recommendations to Congress on what should be done to make higher education materials more accessible to students with disabilities. The details are linked to here in the Federal Register , and includes a pointer to the actual law section.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

It argues that Netflix and Hulu — along with satellite providers Dish Network and DirecTV, as well as Disney’s entertainment distribution division — violated a 2007 law called the Georgia Consumer Choice for Television Act. Georgia isn’t the only place where local towns are pushing for streaming fees. All TV is streaming now.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Australia’s proposed News Media Bargaining Code law, which is currently in draft and targets Facebook alongside Google, follows a 2019 inquiry in Australia that found the tech giant to be taking a disproportionately large share of online advertising revenue, even though much of their content came from media organizations.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In it, the company detailed a plan to reorganize its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). What is a public benefit corporation? Critically, B Corp status isn't a designation with the weight of law, or even an industry-wide group, behind it it's a stamp of approval from this specific nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

We rely on the open Internet to carry out our mission, and on social media and citizen media websites that allow for simple publication and sharing of content. We are concerned this law would will inflict broad damage on the work of digital activists living under repressive regimes, as well as restrict basic speech freedoms around the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit. It’s unclear whether Ghostwriter, too, was trained on licensed or copyrighted code. That includes insecure code.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The elephant in the room is the aforementioned Copilot, which was trained on public code to suggest additional lines of code in response to a description of what a developer wants to accomplish — or even explain what a portion of code does. The company argues that fair use — the doctrine in U.S. But not everyone agrees.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The law enforcement agencies said in a news release that between 2017 through August of 2021, Streit operated a website where he illegally streamed the sports leagues’ live games for profit. Streit faces five criminal counts including wire fraud, accessing a protected computer, illicit digital transmission, and sending interstate threats.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. Copyright © 2013. We may have all come on different ships, but we''re in the same boat now.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 5, 2006

And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers. The news has been full of bloggers who suffered retribution from their employers - but the EFF points out that this is just one possible area of legal conflict.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2021

I’m not surprised that my public repositories are a part of the training data for Copilot”. I’m not surprised that my public repositories are a part of the training data for Copilot,” Celis told The Verge , adding that he was amused by the algorithm reciting his name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

The session will focus on exploring how nonprofits are expanding their efforts to influence public policy through social channels and understanding the legal issues and how to evaluate the work. (I’ll The “ Influencing Public Policy in A Digital Age ” is their comprehensive guide. Social Media and Employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

What do we need to understand about copyrighted material and our content strategy? Review lobbying activities to ensure it complies with laws (Public policy issues and limited part of organization’s activity). Additional Resources: Influencing Public Policy in the Digital Age by the Alliance of Justice.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The portrait images misspelled several names — including EFF speech activist Jillian York and OpenPGP creator Jon Callas — and based at least one drawing on a copyright-protected photograph. But almost immediately, the infosec community began to raise objections — including some from the portrait subjects themselves.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. Copyright © 2014. We may have all come on different ships, but we''re in the same boat now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. copyright law. Ron Schultz's latest book, Creating Good Work Creating Good Work arrives at a critical time for the social entrepreneurial movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Direct Link to " Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law " Museum, Education, and Library IT networks have special interest or affinity groups on the topic of copyright and fair use. The MCN (Museum Computer Network) Intellectual Property Special Internet Group is chaired by. Amalyah Keshet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Well, we do NOT have a fair use right to photograph, without the artist's permission, works protected by copyright -- wherever they are displayed -- except for certain very limited purposes, and property, privacy, and contract law may indeed preempt that.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

The law has yet to offer an opinion on the legality of creating audio deepfakes of Gucci Mane. As a disclaimer on the site slyly points out, the whole project raises interesting questions about copyright in the age of AI fakes. ”We Is this copyright infringement? We didn’t write the books, and we deepfaked the voice,” it says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. Public Domain: There is object code and source code, but chances are that you have to re-engineer the object code. m not going to assert my copyright rights.???

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

An earlier copyright lawsuit filed by the ICC against UpCodes is still ongoing, but UpCodes won a major decision in the case last year when Judge Marrero ruled that its posting of building codes is covered by public domain and fair use. A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The architecture of law creates conditions for innovation and can also chill it. These concerns are not hyperbole: In “ How Law Made Silicon Valley ,” Anupam Chander examines how the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

“If AI-related coverage can get a new, unknown brand into its target publications today, it could help get the brand’s pitch deck in front of potential investors or partners tomorrow,” she writes in TC+. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

He’s been following a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI that “accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot , a code-generating AI system trained on billions of lines of public code, to regurgitate licensed code snippets without providing credit.”

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