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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. We recommend establishing a Terms of Service, or a Terms of Use policy for your information (especially within your search results), so that you can place contractual obligations on those who use your information.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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GeForce Now will now automatically sync to your Steam library

The Verge

But searching for games in your Steam library that were compatible with GeForce Now was a bit of a slog. Nvidia updated its policy in May, requiring publishers and developers to opt in to the platform to have their games available to be played remotely on Nvidia’s servers.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Do I Really Have To Worry About AI?

Bloomerang

Ground rules Develop generative AI policies that give you basic guidelines. One way to start developing an AI policy for your organization is to search the internet for “responsible AI framework.” Put your generative AI policy on your website so folks know you have a policy and are acting above-board.

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QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers

TechCrunch

.” Copyright issues. But the copyright status around AI-generated content is … nebulous, at least presently. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently moved to revoke copyright protection for an AI-generated comic, for example, saying copyrightable works require human authorship.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

It had tons of other products that a reverse image search on Google showed were stolen.”. To spread their fake goods on platforms like Facebook and Amazon, counterfeiters take advantage of a legal provision that protects those companies from user-generated copyright infringement. The DMCA, he says, was made for a different era.

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