Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world. The second principle is sourcing locally relevant content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

, in which she argues that Creative Commons licensing, even if introducing an alternative and open licensing model, nevertheless ???strengthens strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? iron cage of copyright??? No wonder that it is an arcane matter for the average content creator ???

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” See you there!

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Stable Diffusion’s AI model is much more flexible to use real people’s names and images in its renderings. . The full version of Dall-E, which can achieve incredible levels of near-photorealism, has more robust content filters to disallow the tool from getting too close to actual famous faces. . Rights Issues. Inclusivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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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. Bookshare is allowed to serve only students with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. In the U.S.,

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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. The signals from a few European countries on its likely content have not been encouraging. Excludes video. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Ugandan LGBTI activist and Martus user Richard Lusimbo at the 2014 RightsCon human rights conference. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? Sarah Davies, FreedomforIP. Get tech saavy.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

But it could be a very good model for how nonprofits can use the web to open up all the way and be as transparent as possible. Remixing the content: Government content can't be copyrighted, so you're free to grab and reuse any government created content on the site. That's where Recovery.gov comes in. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

I can guarantee your video to get tons of views if you let us do Jacksss-style stunts or not-so-subtly incorporate busty models into our concept — but is this the engaged audience you are looking for? Here’s the issue: On many new website pages, you can see lots of content without reloading the page. Probably not.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

If youre interested in video for nonprofits, keep up with us over the next two weeks because we have some great video content this month. There really are no golden rules here - were continually surprised by the content we see from people on YouTube and it spans a very wide variety of form and formats. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

If youre interested in video for nonprofits, keep up with us over the next two weeks because we have some great video content this month. There really are no golden rules here - were continually surprised by the content we see from people on YouTube and it spans a very wide variety of form and formats. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It was at this juncture that we hit upon the Creative Commons licensing model as one that would help us achieve many of our aims of flexibility, scalability and being able to help catalyse our mission of a book in every child’s hands. Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of designs print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything. Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it. The Mobile Web for Good: Hype or Reality?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

In 2007, Tim wrote an article called "In Praise of Coin-Operated Machines" in which he argues that coin-operated devices are a superior way to present exhibit-like content. allows artists and inventors to supply their work directly to users rather than going through time-consuming and copyright-swallowing middlemen. What do you think?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile. Same as with your main website, the best place for your box is above the "fold" - the point where users have to scroll down to view more content. How much is too much?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile. Same as with your main website, the best place for your box is above the "fold" - the point where users have to scroll down to view more content. How much is too much?

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Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Whole Whale

JANUARY 3, 2024

GA4 Improvements coming Custom metrics and effect on model (for attribution) changes NLP trends on analytics ( ie Google Cloud NL , gensim ) Predictive features of GA4 Consent mode (Google Ads, GA4, & GTM) About consent mode – Google Ads Help. Recent NY Times copyright lawsuit will be watched closely. Short video.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

And, that''s not even mentioning that fact that the MPAA has already gotten their content excluded from the Treaty years ago. I feel quite strongly about this because of how well a balanced copyright law can work, and does work, right here in the United States. Congress to gut our model copyright exception. to swallow.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. November 5, 2008 | pavlo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Seriously tho, great interview! Hope youre doing well! keep working!

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. November 5, 2008 | pavlo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Seriously tho, great interview! Hope youre doing well! keep working!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

For years, our extraordinary cohort of dedicated volunteer scanners has provided Bookshare with most of its new content. This past year, we’re getting most of our content directly from top publishers: high-quality digital content for free.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results. Like Mechanical Turk, Playment receives the data content of a task simply by acting as an intermediary.

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