Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired. That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

They ask courts to declare that Disney has sole ownership of comics like The Avengers, Iron Man , Amazing Spider-Man , Strange Tales , and Tales of Suspense — including the characters and story elements that have formed the basis for Disney’s lucrative Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

An issue thats been in the news a lot lately is the unauthorized use of art and the bulk mining of books and articles , disregarding the copyright of authors , to train AI. Stratton is a professor of English and literary arts at the University of Denver. These companies and individuals have the most to gain from AIs misuse and abuse.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

Second Life, the on-line parallel universe, is a controversial topic. Some folks are fanatical about it, and it's touching a lot of real world places. I was wandering by Second Life interviews onsite at Davos. At the same time, I have heard that it is overhyped and that the number of participants is exaggerated.

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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

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. It has a statement encouraging national copyright exceptions for people with print disabilities as a Good Thing™.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Why it matters: The dispute would reportedly also affect TikTok sibling Douyin, potentially causing both platforms to have to remove Universal songs from the huge number of videos using them as background music. Context: This is not the first dispute involving a major tech platform and Universal-signed artists.

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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. Who owns the copyright? Have you ever wanted to watch a wolf hunt freshwater fish? The researchers with the project trapped V089, a lone wolf, sedated him, and then strapped on the Vectronic-Aerospace camera collar.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Professor Vinod Sena was a retired professor of English literature at the University of Delhi. He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

“Prediction: The side that wins the metaphor battle will win the case,” tweeted University of Oklahoma College of Law professor Sarah Burstein. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. But, we don’t think people with print disabilities should be denied access to library services just because the book is for sale.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Between August 23rd and 24th, Ian Linkletter, a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), made a series of tweets criticizing a software that his school uses. Over 400 universities now use Proctorio, from Harvard and Columbia to UT Austin and Kent State. Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

After all, that's the whole point of universal design ! This is unlike Bookshare, which is for the 1-2% of the population who qualifies for the copyright exemption. Although our efforts on RtF are mainly around serving people with disabilities, we are open to thinking more broadly about how these technologies could benefit more people.

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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. And that's just two examples. Her conclusion was no, and her research was well done.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone. Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. Regulation is helpful, but not enough.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Li Yizhou, a Tsinghua University-educated content creator in AI, has had his educational WeChat mini-program suspended after user anger over low-quality content and excessive advertising.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. In countries outside the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

copyright law. Bookshare also works with large trade publishers such as HarperCollins, Random House, Scholastic, international publishers like the IMF, World Bank and Brookings, twenty-two university presses, and more than one hundred and fifty other publishers. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

After talking about Hadley's work in China, Chuck Young allowed me to address an audience at the university about how Bookshare.org could be used in Hong Kong and China. In addition, Hong Kong passed a copyright exemption just in the last year, and the leaders in Hong Kong are considering how to utilize this new tool.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

from Haiti, knew firsthand the struggles that come with part-time work from his days as a student at Stonybrook University. Last week, the app was taken down , but only because of a copyright infringement claim from Uber. Févry, who immigrated to the U.S. UberCheats is now live!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

But, the cards are copyrighted by Gallup. Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

Frontier denies wrongdoing, telling The Verge that it has terminated customers when copyright holders complain. The suit, which was filed in the state of New York, seeks damages from Frontier for its subscribers who have infringed on almost 3,000 copyrighted works after the ISP was repeatedly told about their infringement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

An earlier copyright lawsuit filed by the ICC against UpCodes is still ongoing, but UpCodes won a major decision in the case last year when Judge Marrero ruled that its posting of building codes is covered by public domain and fair use.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 19, 2022

Internationally renowned political scientist and management scholar and chancellor of Vanderbilt University Daniel Diermeier notes in his excellent book, Reputation Rules , “Executives operate under the mistaken belief that the public trusts them. Dilenschneider was with that organization for nearly 25 years. Dilenschneider.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 7, 2011

Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N. Central Ave.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Small businesses say their livelihoods are threatened even when they aren’t running afoul of copyright and trademark claims In January 2020, Jade Myers, a successful seller of secondhand clothes on Poshmark, came across a trove of designer swimwear and apparel at a thrift store that she knew would be a hit with her shoppers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

What about copyright? Uploaded documents like lecture notes and users’ own comments can be shared within one university course/class in a private learning group. . “We also have a contact email for people to raise potential copyright infringements. Image Credits: StudySmarter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

In an email interview with TechCrunch, Os Keyes, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington who studies ethical AI, made the observation that modeling and photography — and the arts in general — are areas particularly vulnerable to generative AI because photographers and artists lack structural power. Enshrined in U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

studies in computer science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, he says he developed a passion for computer vision and its potential to “improve” communication through generative AI. During Adato’s Ph.D. “I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

I have worked in a bustling public library, a small governmental department library, a huge federal medical library, a small specialized library for a film studio, a huge archival special collection for a university, a medical school library, and the library for the school I got my Master’s Degree of Library Science from, UCLA.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N. Central Ave.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N. Central Ave.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I had a joint meeting (both Republicans and Democrats) with the key Senate Judiciary Committee staff who are the copyright experts, and learned a lot about the process. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community.

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