Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In a recent blog post , Ed explains why growth markets are key to this proposed merger of two of the publishing world’s biggest players. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. Benetech Labs: what are our intellectual property policies on Labs projects if we host projects proposed by third parties? when we bring them to developing world countries.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Rutzen proposed a series of initiatives, including calling for the U.S. Gigauri testified that Georgian citizens had been struggling against the anti-NGO laws influenced by Russia which “… amplify Russian anti-Western disinformation, cultivate social division and undermine partnership with the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

These include legal obligations, for example Germany recently passed a new supply chain due diligence law that makes it the responsibility of large companies to track human rights violations and environmental risks through their supply chain. A similar directive is currently being proposed for the broader European Union (EU) too.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In January, a simple effort to update its terms of service to enable some commerce features triggered a massive backlash in India , helping its rival Signal to double its user base in a month. And so how do you maximally protect encryption while also enabling at least some kind of interfacing with law enforcement to catch the worst actors?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Instead, let’s talk about India’s crypto tax changes , which will impact a host of startups in the country. TechCrunch reports that “India’s proposed taxation law of virtual digital assets won’t permit individuals to offset loss on one asset against profit from another.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

.” I reached out to a few experts to get their take and one of the more interesting ones was from Matthew Wansley, former general counsel of nuTonomy (which Aptiv acquired) and a law professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in New York. He did propose a solution that I will post below.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The lawsuit alleged that the social network “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.” On February 8, Twitter Blue extended services further to India, Indonesia and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” The other founder is from India and is working on an H-1B at a large tech company. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

She’s from India and has been on an H-1B for more than 6 years. She also covered a lawsuit brought against Tesla by some former workers who say they shouldn’t have to sign a release in exchange for lower severance than federal law provides. Dear Sophie: How can we transfer a candidate’s H-1B and green card?

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The SDG Gender Index highlights that an intersectional lens is critical to understanding how inequalities combine and accumulate, and more so to identify problems and propose solutions. . Reforming and applying inequality laws. That's why Tableau Foundation is also supporting the Data Journalism Fellow Program in India and Kenya.

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

The SDG Gender Index highlights that an intersectional lens is critical to understanding how inequalities combine and accumulate, and more so to identify problems and propose solutions. . Reforming and applying inequality laws. That's why Tableau Foundation is also supporting the Data Journalism Fellow Program in India and Kenya.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

We also proposed a new approach for recommender systems that uses natural language explanations to make it easier for people to understand and control their recommendations. The app is available to English speakers 18+ in Australia, Canada, Ghana, India, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

Both Google and Facebook threatened to leave Australia over the proposed law, until Google cut a deal with Australia’s biggest news organizations, and Facebook turned off their access to the news feed entirely. After a few days, the law was slightly changed, Facebook also paid the money, and access was restored.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The basic laws of supply and demand mean there will always be people in the workforce willing to move into well-paid security jobs. Zomato juice: Indian unicorn’s proposed IPO could drive regional startup liquidity. The IPO parade continued t his week as India-based food-delivery unicorn Zomato filed to go public. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

India is finalizing its national battery swap program for two- and three-wheeled EVs. . Embark conducted a public demo to show how its autonomous trucks would interact with emergency vehicles and law enforcement in Texas. . In other news…. Electric moped growth is predicted to double in Asia. . Rebecca Bellan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The story, by Maxwell Tani and Spencer Ackerman, recounts a controversy that broke out inside the company when one of its 50,000 employees posted a short essay to its internal Workplace forum titled “In Support of Law Enforcement and Black Lives.” SoftBank is starting to put together a bid for TikTok in India. Between March 1 and Aug.

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TechNode

JANUARY 16, 2025

Why it matters: The proposed delay to the ban reflects the US’s conflicted stance on TikTok. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey proposed a delay to the TikTok ban deadline less than a week before it was set to take effect. India was the largest market for TikTok before the India ban.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

The Trump administration is “looking at” a lot of things, and many previous insane-sounding proposals have come and gone without ever being enacted. Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.” (It Can’t wait!

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

I particularly liked this proposed question, about Amazon: In a five-week period during the pandemic, your firm added the value of the world’s largest firm by revenue — Walmart. companies will cede territory to Chinese companies abroad, particularly in high-growth markets like India.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

In his blog post, he came bearing economic gifts for the country that is currently blocking his app from federal and military devices, and threatening to ban it completely — as India recently did. European regulators are drafting new laws aimed a curbing the power of the big tech companies in a way that previously regulations have not.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

It looks at the second-order consequences of India banning TikTok , or “ hostage-taking laws ” that threaten tech executives with jail time over their content moderation decisions. It focuses on who loses when free expression is restricted, particularly among marginalized groups.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A group of Republican senators led by Marco Rubio is calling on Trump to reject Oracle’s proposed deal with TikTok if the app doesn’t sever ties with ByteDance. “We Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. Adi Robertson / The Verge ). Governing. ? Amir Efrati / The Information ). Emily Birnbaum / Protocol ).

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Here’s how Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Google gave detailed personal information about far-right users to law enforcement agencies working on counter terrorism, according to leaked documents. Her family used Europe’s right to be forgotten law to try and make the content disappear. It’s looking at how the company influences how sellers set prices on the platform.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

India wants to expedite trade talks with US India’s Trade Ministry is assessing the latest U.S. ” “The proposed tax rate does not reflect the actual economic and trade situation between Taiwan and the United States (and) is unfair to Taiwan,” Cabinet spokesperson Lee Hui-chih said in an official news release.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The second thing to say about “polarization” is that while it has a lot of negative effects, it’s worth thinking about what your proposed alternative to it would be. And whatever Trump may think, as the law professor Kate Klonick noted , “The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump. Is it national unity? One-party rule?

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