Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2007

via Amalyah Keshet and Wired Magazine " Hijacked Disney Characters Explain Copyright " The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden , came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. Stanford's Fair Use Project--to which Stanford Law professor, Copyright guru, Creative Commons advocate and Wired.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 3, 2005

The Google Library question is a hot one, and we believe that this project will lead to better access for disadvantaged people. The core question is whether Google's Library program is a fair use of copyrighted material. Good summary in the attached review post: Does Google Library violate copyright?

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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. Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Every conversation in which you truly listen, every piece of positive feedback you give, and every project you assign that encourages learning and growth dont just add upthey multiply. Copyright 2025 by Wes Adams and Tamara Myles. Excerpted from Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Thanks to the Voyageurs Wolf Project from the University of Minnesota, you can see it on YouTube any time you like. The researchers with the project trapped V089, a lone wolf, sedated him, and then strapped on the Vectronic-Aerospace camera collar. Who owns the copyright? Who’s a good boy?

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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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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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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

While NFT marketplaces are required to comply with copyright laws, NFT fraud can be tough to spot, especially since crypto wallet addresses can’t always be traced to the real identities of their owners. Reverse image search API providers such as NFTPort are also operating in a similar space to Doppel, he added.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Finally, the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Education reviewed Bookshare’s status as an authorized entity as part of the awards process for the Bookshare for Education project. Tags: copyright blind Bookshare Chafee.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

After winning a November auction, the group voted last week on a direction for the project and got promptly roasted online for allegedly not understanding what they’d bought. Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp — Spice DAO ( , ) (@TheSpiceDAO) January 15, 2022. We won the auction for €2.66M.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. Through the LIT project, we’re adding many new innovations to the groundwork laid by the B4E project, with a focus on three core areas: content, tools, and utilization.

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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. This is an effort to create a voluntary project between the publishers and the Trusted Intermediaries.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Corellium has posted a tutorial on the process , if you’re interested in trying this beta project out. Apple lost an early challenge against Corellium late last year, after initially filing a lawsuit against the company on copyright grounds back in August 2019. A ruling on the separate DMCA allegations has been deferred.

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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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Morgue File – This collection of photographs were freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects. Photoshare – This collection focuses on images that depict international health as part of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project and was funded by USAID.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Projekt Melody briefly disappeared from Twitch due to a copyright dispute over her body Projekt Melody swears her body belongs to her — the purple hair, the cat-eared bow, and all the barely there clothing that strategically covers her up. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge. Melody was banned from Twitch. million followers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The tool, not yet generally available, can “communicate” in natural language and collaborate with users on code changes, Steinberger claims — operating like a pair programmer that’s able to understand and continuously learn more about the context of both coding projects and developers. But not everyone agrees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As I was thinking about this, it became clear that now is the time to look beyond the tools for social change that we’ve built and consider the frameworks that guide us in moving them forward and in identifying the next projects to work on. We are always exploring new projects with the hope of launching a new product each year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For everyone else, the lawsuit is about whether language compatibility is tantamount to copyright infringement. But far away from Silicon Valley, there’s been a sea change that encompasses much more than a mere $6 billion and the future of copyright law. In the 1996 software copyright case Lotus v.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Technically, Ripple is under the auspices of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the same industry body that hosts the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas each January, but there’s little question who’s actually behind the project. One commit points out that the project was updated “to include CTA.”)

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The Next Web

JANUARY 29, 2014

A successful hackathon is one that results in working projects. The sticking point for many teams is getting their projects deployed and accessible for people to poke at. Copyright: NYU Photo Bureau. It was amazing to see the time, passion and creativity that was brought out when everyone got behind a great cause.

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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. Tiffany Li, a fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, cautioned against reading too much into the proceedings.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. So I’m on identi.ca

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Beyond that, users can share projects, ask for help, learn from tutorials and use templates. 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. That includes insecure code.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. This is very cool.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

Our next project was the research and writing of the “ The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Age of Automation ,” a broader look at the implications on all aspects of nonprofits and philanthropy. Already, we are seeing artists protest about stolen creative property and school systems ban tool s because of cheating concerns.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Talk of NFTs may be filling board rooms and news feeds, but their complex and new nature makes it hard for investors to determine which projects show promise. From copyright enforcement to buying real estate and identity verification, NFTs play a big role in the remote,= digital world. billion in sales volume.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

The passage of SOPA and PIPA by the United States Congress and Senate would force social media platforms and other web sites that host user-generated content to pro-actively monitor and censor users to prevent them from posting words or images that may violate copyrights. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Based on hitting that number two years early, we’re now projecting that we could serve perhaps twice as many students, 200,000, by the 2012 milestone date. We’re helping the environmental movement become more effective through using Miradi to manage its conservation projects and to better steward environmental assets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has issued its annual forecast of “ The Future of the Internet.” Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

First, they represent the intrinsic value of copyright ownership, and second, the emotional value of owning something scarce that’s associated with your favorite artist. That’s why at Royal, Blau and his co-founder JD Ross (who also co-founded homebuying startup Opendoor) have chosen to apply NFTs to the copyrights behind songs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Copyright P. Do you lie awake at night and wonder how everything is going to get done, or why a new project was just dumped on your plate? Have you prioritized your technology needs and projects, or are you responding to whoever screams the loudest? Mueller [link].

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