Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2019, we did a deep dive on AI & Giving to look at the landscape of fundraising tools & platforms using AI and the implications. The article reinforces the message we’ve shared for years that these tools can benefit nonprofits in many ways, especially small nonprofits.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Twitch published a blog post today with the relatively anodyne title “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch.” Twitch was unprepared for a sudden onslaught of copyright takedown notices from the music industry that started back in May. The company also apologized for only giving creators a mass-deletion tool for clips. “We

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 24, 2015

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2021

Twitch has received a “batch” of new takedown notices from music publishers over copyrighted songs in recorded streams (known as VODs), the company said in an email to streamers today. A lot of that music is copyrighted, which leads to situations like these mass takedowns when the music industry wants to get paid.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2021

His stream was shut down shortly thereafter, giving his viewers — and himself — the impression that he was banned for violating YouTube’s copyright policies. However, Ahgren wasn’t actually struck with a copyright strike or a suspension. Our Content ID tool picked up his playing of an unlicensed video while he was going live to fans.”.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 16, 2023

AI-powered content-generating tools have seen their popularity explode in recent months, but it hasn't stopped the controversy that surrounds them. That's been especially true of systems that create art. The problem was highlighted last September when the Colorado State Fair's contest for emerging digital artists was by Jason M.

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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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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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TechSpot

MARCH 17, 2021

YouTube is reportedly taking additional steps to curb videos featuring copyrighted material from being uploaded to its platform.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2021

Twitch announced in an email to streamers that the site has added new tools today to help creators see where they stand with takedown requests and copyright strikes. Twitch also added tools to let streamers mass delete their recorded streams. If you don’t, and you rack up enough copyright strikes, you get permabanned.).

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! copyright exception. After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world.

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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. While Talukdar acknowledges that AI tools like Marey could lower production costs, he insists its certainly not the beginning of the end for actorsor filmmakers.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

From there, the company could choose to let the images stay up, issue a takedown, which removes the infringing post entirely, or use a territorial block, meaning the post stays live but isn’t viewable in territories where the company’s copyright applies. “We

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2021

Just days after GitHub announced its new Copilot tool , which generates complementary code for programmers’ projects, web developer Kyle Peacock tweeted an oddity he had noticed. “I Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images. What a machine then outputs is still blurry and going to be figured out.”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

First, Twitch is telling streamers that some of their content has been identified as violating copyright and that instead of letting streamers file counterclaims, it’s deleting the content; second, the company is telling streamers it’s giving them warnings, as opposed to outright copyright strikes.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

The last thing I want is to guilt trip someone into buying the NFT and copyright to pay for my medical expenses but I would like the auction winner to know that their money would be going to a good cause.”. DeHaas says he plans to transfer copyright and ownership rights for the NFT to the auction winner. million on March 22nd.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The so-called " paper of record " is now encouraging staff to use generative AI tools to write headlines and summarize articles. Along with models from Google, Github, and Amazon, NYT staff will also have access to Echo, a bespoke tool currently in beta that's designed to condense articles into shorter summaries.

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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. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. Unfortunately, we can’t export these books, as other countries have copyright laws that we wouldn’t violate. Funders like the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 Wordle is an online tool that allows you to easily create word clouds.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

At the same time, many generative video tools also highlight questions and challenges around content ownership and copyright. Some of these have become a key part of larger discussions on the development and evolution of AI-powered tools. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In its suit filed in US federal court, Nintendo alleges that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The company adds that the emulator turns general computing devices into tools for massive IP infringement, not just of Nintendo's work but also that of.

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 6, 2023

And, when it comes to data engineering solutions, it’s no different: They have databases, ETL tools, streaming platforms, and so on — a set of tools that makes our life easier (as long as you pay for them). The tools — TLDR Lambda functions are AWS’s most famous serverless computing solution. not sponsored. Image by Author.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

. “I realized that combining LLMs trained on code with my research on neural memory and reinforcement learning might allow us to build an AI software engineer that feels like a true colleague, not just a tool. Like most AI-powered code-generating systems, Magic was trained on publicly available code, some of which is copyrighted.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Gerardo Capiel, Benetech's VP, Engineering One of the highlights of my meeting circuit each year is the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City. 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Case in point, Replit, an IDE startup developing a code-generating AI-powered tool called Ghostwriter, this week raised nearly $100 million ($97.4 Before creating Replit, Amjad Masad worked in engineering roles at Yahoo and Facebook, where he built software development tooling. Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech.

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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. Was Google using a tool or exploiting a creative work? If you let somebody have a copyright on that now, they would control all typewriters.”.

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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. The change could help publishers, photographers, and artists get in front of their audience, while also helping users find images that they have a right to use.

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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 ). Calibre : a cross-platform suite of tools for ebook management, conversion, etc. Mobipocket Reader (Mobi – nonDRM).

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What tools should they use? link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Some people say we're in the midst of a revolution where the new tools of social media are reinventing social activism in vital ways. Do you have examples on this topic, has this happened to you?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

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. Exciting new tools, including a free, open source Android ebook reader and a free web-based ebook reader along with an accessible bookshelf in “the cloud.” In the U.S.,

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Nintendo objected to the organizers using Slippi, a software tool that makes Super Smash Bros. Nintendo has a complicated relationship with both the Smash community and the larger world of video games , largely because of its aggressive copyright enforcement. We are forced to comply with the order and cancel The Big House Online.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 25, 2007

An under-used tool for foundations is the program-related investment (PRI). No copyright claim to this booklet or its contents is made, provided acknowledgement is given to MicroCredit Enterprises and/or the authors and provided that this material is not reproduced for sale.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our goal is to be a source of inspiration and to offer the tools that make for outstanding careers and associations. Nor could we have imagined the rapid development of new AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. But answers aren’t enough anymore.

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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. Images: Matt Buchholz.

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