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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. copyright law.

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Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy 

Candid

From programs that make complex data-based decisions to applications that transcribe spoken words into text, AI offers new opportunities to do things more creatively and efficiently. Artificial intelligence (AI) is radically changing the way organizations work.

Policy 105
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Congressional Testimony Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In my prepared statement, I explained why well-balanced intellectual property laws inspire technology innovation and social good, and described how our Bookshare initiative models the good that copyright exceptions can create. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright.

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Benetech's Statement to the Treaty Delegates in Marrakech

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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AI in Marketing and Art

Media Cause

As the litany of new, strange, scary, and interesting applications of AI and machine learning keep expanding before our eyes, we all must constantly re-evaluate its implications. One of the most interesting recent applications of AI machine learning is image generation by text prompt. AI Image Generation. Rights Issues. Inclusivity.

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Lame spam of the day: Instant Acrobat Upgrade

Robert Weiner

Create rich, polished PDF files from any application that prints. Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Since the Holidays are in full swing and the New Year is approaching, we've decided to unveil our Acrobat Reader/Writer 2012. Advanced features include: - Collaborate across borders. Ensure visual fidelity. All rights reserved.

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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. If we agree that community information data represents valuable time and energy, we may also agree that these critical collections of data should be protected against screen scraping and other means of unauthorized use.

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