Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Heyer first posted the Apple dance on June 15, 2024, and submitted a copyright application on August 30. Roblox removed the emote from the game in November 2024but not before it was sold over 60,000 times, earning an estimated $123,000 from the copyrighted work, per the lawsuit. Roblox has since responded.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Be Helpful.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

BitMar is fully compliant with copyright laws — and it’s simply locating content already available on the web. Opens in a new window Credit: BitMar BitMar Streaming Content-Finder: Lifetime Subscription $14.99 $150 Save $135.01 Is it legal? Enjoy no subscription streaming with a BitMar lifetime subscription at $14.99

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TechSpot

MARCH 12, 2025

Meta openly admitted to using the Book3 dataset, a well-known 37GB compilation of 195,000 copyrighted books used by developers to train LLMs. In January 2024, a group of writers filed a lawsuit in California against Meta for using their works to train various versions of the Llama large language model. Read Entire Article

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

In my prepared statement, I explained why well-balanced intellectual property laws inspire technology innovation and social good, and described how our Bookshare initiative models the good that copyright exceptions can create. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright. We call this building the last “social mile.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

This involves adopting a stance of openness to what others may bring to the conversation. Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Copyright 2025, All Rights Reserved. Instead of letting barriers take over, try to implement these skills instead. Noticing requires the listener to be attentive during conversations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). UpCodes’ building code database is at the center of the lawsuit, because it contains material the ICC claims copyright on. ” Can the law be copyrighted?

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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. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Now, Google has launched an open-source API standard called Ripple that could theoretically bring the tech to additional devices outside Google — perhaps even a car, as Ford is one of the participants in the new standard. Standard Radar API” appears to be the original name. One commit points out that the project was updated “to include CTA.”)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

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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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Image Credits: Darieus (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Every startup isn’t ready to hire a full-time marketer, but that’s no excuse to toss money out the window on paid acquisition. Generative AI and copyright law: What’s the future for intellectual property? Generative AI and copyright law: What’s the future for IP?

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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. 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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The goal is to eventually open this feature up to everyone, as it already does with music and video rights. The company didn’t give a timeline on when it hopes to open this up more broadly. To claim their copyright, the image rights holder uploads a CSV file to Facebook’s Rights Manager that contains all the image’s metadata.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

United States lawmakers are considering two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) , that post a threat to the openness of the web around the Globe. 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.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

BitMar is fully compliant with copyright laws — and it’s simply locating content already available on the web. Opens in a new window Credit: BitMar BitMar Streaming Content-Finder: Lifetime Subscription AU$23 AU$234 Save AU$211 Get Deal Is it legal? This coupon code expires April 27. StackSocial prices subject to change.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. It alleged that the tool “was designed and is marketed” for illegally saving copyrighted music, violating Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Amazon received a “blistering” letter last Thursday about copyright infringement and Twitch’s nonexistent licensing deals with major music rights holders, Variety reports. The document accuses Twitch of allowing streamers to play copyrighted music without getting the proper licensing to do so. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

, in which she argues that Creative Commons licensing, even if introducing an alternative and open licensing model, nevertheless ???strengthens strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? iron cage of copyright??? Creative Commons, writes Elkin-Koren, ??? All evidence we have at the moment is anecdotal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The NMPA sued Roblox in June for letting users upload copyrighted songs into its shared library of game-building assets. While this settlement news doesn’t explicitly discuss those kinds of deals, it seemingly opens the door to them. Roblox announced new ‘listening parties’ last week. Music is a major element of Roblox.

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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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Google Research AI blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, these data can sometimes contain private information, including personal identifiable information, copyright material, etc. We provide an overview of common techniques for obtaining DP-ML models and discuss research, engineering challenges, mitigation techniques and current open questions.

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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. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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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’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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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. Be open to negotiating on the US-JR if it’s stipulated that it is a step on the road to a treaty (a “yes-and” strategy).

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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. Disability advocates should, at minimum, press for a seat at the ACTA table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). I write a fair bit of science fiction, and also write other stuff. I’m talking in this post about self-publishing eBooks.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The new Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) update is out, and as per usual it includes a bunch of changes and fixes that will make your streaming life just a little bit better. For the uninitiated: it’s normal to play music in the background of live streams, but issues around copyright mean that it can be dangerous.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 29, 2013

Select whether to open the file or save it to your hard drive. Opening the file displays the attachment in a new browser window. - The message is password-protected, enter your password to open it. Copyright © 2013 KeyCorp®. disclosure under applicable law. All Rights Reserved. Attachment: Key_Denise_Fish.Zip.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Through this three-year project—made possible with support from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind as well as India’s adoption of a new copyright exception for people with print disabilities —we will pilot Bookshare International at scale in India.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2020

It opened the “emergency” program in March , providing free access to 1.4 The Emergency Library is part of the Open Libraries initiative, in which the Internet Archive scans libraries’ books, allowing digital “check-outs” via a waiting list. The intent was to keep the Emergency Library up and running through June 30th.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 14, 2012

For instance, if you don’t state specifically how many revisions they can make and outline what a revision is, then you could leave yourself open to unlimited revisions. Copyright assignments and/or permissions. We cannot be held responsible for copyright infringement claims involving materials supplied for use by you.”

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Robert Weiner

JULY 11, 2011

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern, javascript enabled, browser. (ex: This one is kind of funny. Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Here’s a glimpse at what we’re delivering: Open-content, publicly available and freely shared image descriptions and reusable graphical models to improve accessibility of NIMAC textbooks and Common Core content (this is so cool, I'm going to write another blog just on this aspect: look for the Triple Play blog!) In the U.S.,

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

A number of lawsuits were filed against Epic over claims the company infringed on some variety of either likeness or copyright by using the dances without permission, and some remain ongoing. Fortnite ’s newest in-game emote is a collaborative one.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Oracle covers a complex question : what elements of computer code can be copyrighted, and if that code is covered by copyright, when it’s still legal to use pieces of it under fair use. If you let somebody have a copyright on that now, they would control all typewriters.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management). You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.”

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