Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility blind Bookshare copyright IP Marrakesh Treaty print disabilities visual impairment WIPO'

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

The NFT, also, is a copyright nightmare, much like many of the images that Ratajkowski described grappling with throughout her career. The Richard Prince painting is itself a copyright nightmare. Is the font copyright protected, too? To break down the situation at hand: There is the NFT. Please help me. It’s messy!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 19, 2013

Our library is made possible both by a domestic copyright exception that makes it possible for us to add any book requested by a blind person to our library, as well as strong cooperation with publishers who provide many of their books directly to our library for free, including the rights to serve people in certain other countries.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But Disney’s attorneys argue that Marvel had sole creative control over the characters and comic books in question, saying it paid writers and artists on a work-for-hire basis that precluded any rights to the resulting books. This case thus involves an invalid attempt, by means of termination notices.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. PICT was in an uncomfortable middle ground: the company used union artists and performed copyrighted works, but lacked the Met's clout. I find the three companies' stories interesting.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Funders are in the business of social change, and they want to know that the results you expect are worth the investment of their grant money. © Copyright The Grantsmanship Center. Is the program cost effective, given what it will produce? Does it add up (and down and across)? You can’t be too careful.

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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

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. We’re extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished with Bookshare over the past four years and are hopeful that by the end of our OSEP contract term, we’ll have delivered double the results we initially proposed. There are some 7.5

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg called it “completely made up,” tweeting over the weekend that this is the result of a site operator error. Weinberg insisted the company is not purging any results. Anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results,” Weinberg tweeted.

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VisionLink

APRIL 16, 2014

So, organizations that manage information should be careful to avoid undervaluing the results of their hard work by giving away data without any guidance or protection. The more that community resource information is used, the more good that can result. This does not mean that data should be kept private and self-contained.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. Sponsored by Results Direct Breaks sponsored by: Teal Media and Joy of Membership ; Lunch Sponsored by BenchPrep; Reception sponsored by Multiview If you missed Solutions Day this year, stay tuned for my recap of the event! How do we stay on track and meet our goals?

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2020

Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed to make it easier to license photographs or pictures that are covered by copyright. Images with licensing information provided by the publisher will now appear in search results with a “Licensable” badge over the thumbnail.

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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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Futurism

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Despite those example use cases, and others shared with staff by the company, the guidelines also warn employees not to employ generative AI in article writing or revision, or when inputting copyrighted material from outside sources. As Tani notes, this new suite of tools is the result of that effort.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Spotify has reversed course on a decision to exit the Uruguayan market, after gaining assurances from the government that copyright law changes it’s introducing won’t result in Spotify incurring extra costs. Last October, Uruguay passed a new law […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 8, 2023

Google provides a regularly updated transparency report regarding web content removal due to copyright violations. Google can then "delist" these URLs by removing them from its web search results. Law firms and other organizations can submit a DMCA notice to the company, detailing the infringing URLs. While the DMCA takedown.

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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. As a result, people with visual impairments – the most natural customers of digital ebooks – have been locked out of using them! thanks to our domestic copyright exception.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As a result, people with disabilities were left behind, facing insurmountable barriers to opportunities in education, employment, and social inclusion. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the world’s largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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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. When Google v.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

As a result, Barnes and Noble, as well as a few other brick and mortar booksellers, declared that they will not carry the book, as part of their battle with Amazon (although it’s still available on Barnes and Noble’s website ). Here’s the story. Unorthodox, iterative distribution just earned its place.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our research resulted in two books dedicated to positioning executives for success in digital markets. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. Sponsored by Results Direct The Real Fun— Plenty of time to network with old and new friends during breaks, lunch, and the cocktail reception.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” As a result, strong DRM has the unintended effect of preventing people with disabilities from reading the text that they are entitled to.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A copy of the legal complaint obtained by The Verge shows that Meta’s lawsuit doesn’t just concern phishing attacks — it also raises an issue with copyright infringement. Meta noticed that these attacks started ramping up in March of this year and worked with Ngrok to suspend the URLs that the bad actors were using.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

Google has once again prevailed in an ongoing legal battle with song lyrics website Genius, which claimed that Google was using its transcribed lyrics without permission in search results. Genius sued Google in 2019, arguing that Google was scraping lyrics from its website in violation of Genius’ copyright.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Five major publishers have sued Shopify over pirated learning materials like PDFs of ebooks and test materials, saying the e-commerce platform fails to remove listings and stores that violate the publishers’ trademarks and copyrights. To date in 2021, over 90% of copyright and trademark reports were reviewed within 1 business day.”.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 29, 2014

A successful hackathon is one that results in working projects. 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. Torrey Tayenaka , Sparkhouse. . A Deployment Process. Adam Lieb , Duxter. Top image credit: Flickr/Elena Olivo.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

It accuses Roblox — a massively popular, kid-focused platform for games and social experiences — of hosting a shared library of copyrighted but unlicensed songs. We do not tolerate copyright infringement, which is why we use industry-leading, advanced filtering technology to detect and prohibit unauthorized recordings.”.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

As a result, Expensify is atypical of startups in many ways, inside and out. 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. million.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As a result, YouTube is expecting to see far more videos pop up with age-gated restrictions. That doesn’t mean mistakes won’t happen; they will, as countless incidents of wrongfully applied labels and takedowns and all manner of copyright strike controversies have illustrated in the past.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York found that while the claims of scraping were credible, the scraping did not constitute a copyright violation, and the lawsuit was dismissed as a result. On Tuesday, Google beat back a lawsuit over alleged scraping of song lyrics from Genius, a lyrics and commentary site.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

However, The Financial Times reports that the plans have since been paused in Australia as a result of the proposed law. In 2018, it showed notices on YouTube about the EU’s copyright proposal. The initiatives in Brazil and Germany are reportedly not affected.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

The results are impressive: the deepfake certainly sounds like the man himself, though the results are not always totally coherent or of the greatest quality. 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?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The result is a significant step forward for autonomous coding, says DeepMind, though AlphaCode’s skills are not necessarily representative of the sort of programming tasks faced by the average coder. On average, it ranked within the top 54.3

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2021

News publishers gained the ability to request payment for the use of their content on third-party platforms with the passage of the European Union’s controversial Copyright Directive , which was adopted by France in 2019 and generally tries to shift power toward content producers rather than the platforms that reshare their work.

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