Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Getting some kind of licensing deal is critically important, because it will take many years for the Marrakesh Treaty to be fully implemented with its copyright exceptions. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2024

When news broke last year that AI heavyweight OpenAI and Axel Springer had reached a financial agreement and partnership, it seemed to bode well for harmony between folks who write words, and tech companies that use them to help create and train artificial intelligence models. All rights reserved.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From my college dorm room, where I thought that pattern recognition could do more than target missiles, to my first successful high tech company where we built technology that could read just about any font without training, to Benetech’s founding with the Arkenstone reading machine for the blind. That was over 24 years ago!

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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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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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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

BitMar is fully compliant with copyright laws — and it’s simply locating content already available on the web. You’ll use a far more user-friendly interface to plug in a channel, genre, actor, or a specific movie or TV show you have in mind, then this content aggregator scours the web to find it. Is it legal?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

The model was trained exclusively on video content either owned or fairly licensed by Moonvalley, avoiding the copyright gray zones that make much generative content legally fraught. What sets Marey apartand has caught the attention of risk-averse studiosis its training data.

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TechSpot

JULY 10, 2024

Despite the resources tech giants have recently poured into AI PCs, IDC data suggests their spread into the market will take years, and developers are slow to utilize them. Generative AI's true value remains uncertain, and controversies over reliability and copyright haven't faded. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Many, if not most, generative AI tech vendors argue that fair use entitles them to train AI models on copyrighted material scraped from the internet — even if they don’t get permission from the rightsholders.

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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. Employees are also barred from using the technology to get around paywalls.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Years ago, Big Tech companies like Google decided that they profit more by stealing smaller companies’ intellectual property than buying or licensing it. Big Tech thus takes what it wants. Simply put, Big Tech benefits from stealing IP. Simply put, Big Tech benefits from stealing IP. The problem? Adam Mossoff.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Proctorio was suing him for tweeting the videos, as well as a screenshot of its website — the company claimed he’d infringed its copyright and distributed confidential material. But as critics are discovering, the law is giving Proctorio an unexpected advantage, allowing the company to shut down criticisms by appealing to copyright law. +.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Copyright 2025, All Rights Reserved. Interjections are used to build energy, strengthen connections, and show interest. Excerpted from Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection by Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener & Dr. Christian vanNieuwerburgh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

When we first started publishing and presenting on Smart Tech and AI tools to audiences of fundraisers, nonprofits, and funders in the social sector field, the media narrative around AI was presented as binary. Already, we are seeing artists protest about stolen creative property and school systems ban tool s because of cheating concerns.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

People with disabilities are repeatedly left out in the cold because accessibility concerns don’t rank high on tech company priority lists. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This being the first week […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Tenn recommends imitating major players like Google and Samsung, which have dedicated teams that release a steady stream of material about “ongoing projects” tied to prevailing tech trends. Even if those projects don’t see the light of day, the PR team has strategically positioned the brand as ‘innovative,’” says Tenn.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

government is consulting on whether to let tech firms use copyrighted material to help train AI models unless the creators explicitly opt out. Critics of the idea fear that will make it harder for artists to retain control of their work and will undermine Britain’s creative industries. . “The U.K. a world leader in AI.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ten years after Oracle first sued Google over the code in the Android platform, the two tech giants are finally facing off in the Supreme Court. For everyone else, the lawsuit is about whether language compatibility is tantamount to copyright infringement. In the 1996 software copyright case Lotus v. When Google v.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Their areas of expertise touch on generative AI, but also copyright issues as they concern AI, like whether training AI systems on copyrighted material might be considered fair use. As the tech enters the mainstream, each new day brings a new lawsuit — which the experts on the AI Stage will break down in detail.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies. The tech is there to police these things”.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

According to TechCrunch , Meta has been scrambling to figure out how AI rival DeepSeek has managed to create tech that rivals its own at a fraction of the development cost. The companys also currently embroiled in a lawsuit that accuses it of training Llama models on copyrighted book materials without permission.

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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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Copyright 2025 by Wes Adams and Tamara Myles. 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. Excerpted from Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech. 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. million) at a $1.16 billion post-money valuation.

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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. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.

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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. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 25, 2007

I want to see us have the same kind of positive environment for social ventures as we have in Silicon Valley for high tech ventures (but they have to make a lot of money), where great social ventures are rewarded with better and lower cost capital. Social capital formation is a hot topic for me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

It’s easy to dismiss the authors’ concerns (as many have in the tech community) as greedy or Luddite. If people starting taking audio versions of their Kindle books and distributing them, they would of course be violating copyright. Tags: Kindle Kindle2 Authors Guild copyfight copyright blind amazon.com NFB.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Like most AI-powered code-generating systems, Magic was trained on publicly available code, some of which is copyrighted. 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.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 29, 2014

Blend the hackathon teams with tech and business talent so that the hacks created are more likely to speak to all aspects of the business. Copyright: NYU Photo Bureau. The most successful company hackathons take place when there’s a diverse perspective from different company functions and teams. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger. The goal is to get more people working to make this happen: getting access tech to every person in the world who needs it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

From copyright enforcement to buying real estate and identity verification, NFTs play a big role in the remote,= digital world. If you’re speaking with a founder who doesn’t delve into the details of the business model, the tech and competitors, consider it a red flag. billion in sales volume.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. And then they go away.

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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.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. In response to COVID’s demand for digital programs that are repeatable, monetizable, and highly engaging, SPE created SPE Live and SPE Tech Talks. The use of AI in IP also raises additional questions.

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