Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. 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. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. In the United States, most children are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered this continent, that we created freedom and democracy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

They had at the tips of their fingers vast amounts of information and knowledge, so they no longer had to travel to libraries to obtain research and have access to information. As most adults in the United States know, Equifax is one of the largest three credit bureaus. The US Constitution enshrines privacy into law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

It is narrower than the Treaty, and is not binding as a treaty would be (some call it “soft law” compared to the “hard law” of a treaty). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . law (this is a wildcard issue right now). and European privacy laws, and so on. • law today. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? As an independent territory of the United States, the schools of Puerto Rico are subject to the same federal laws and IDEA initiatives as every school in the 50 states.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. At Benetech, our commitment is to uphold that social deal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! is relocating our units from Okinawa to Guam and this could grow the island's population anywhere from 20% to 40%. Although some of the island states are independent nations, they all implement U.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The challenge to providing help to this quarter of the world’s people is the growing body of anti-terrorism laws in the world, like the USA Patriot Act and Executive Order 13224 in the United States. These laws prohibit financial transactions with individuals and organizations associated with terrorism.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. From the late 1800s up until 1920, the U.S. entered the Progressive Era.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. It’s what makes our Bookshare service legally possible. national experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. Linden Labs is a real case currently making its way through the United States federal court system. We will be holding a moot trial of Bragg v.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Although San Francisco is currently in a housing crisis/real estate boom , it also has some of the strongest tenant laws in the country. When you click on a category, say Technology, you'll see a list of related services such as the Mission Bay Library or the Tenderloin Technology Lab.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 61 million people in the United States are living with a disability, that’s roughly 26% of our nation’s population.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. So, in the United States, Benetech created a second equilibrium change. Fast forward to today. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2015

to showcase your nonprofit or library. The Contest is only open to all nonprofit organizations in the United States of America (“ US ”) who have used any of TechSoup's Adobe Creative Cloud discounted products or TechSoup Adobe donation products in the past. (a) b) Void States. Eligibility. a) In General.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

On behalf of our nonprofit organization, Benetech, and the thousands of similarly situated social enterprises in the United States, we are writing to support this rejection. Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Human trafficking organizations advocate for stronger anti-trafficking laws, provide services and support for victims of trafficking crimes, and develop long-term strategies to end human trafficking. Problem: In years past, Hagar relied on an extensive library of Excel files to document contact with each client that would come seeking help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

It''s something we already do, with great success, in the United States. Extending our own principles--that should be the United States'' negotiating position. law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. Now, the progress made is all in jeopardy. That''s what the MPAA calls "balance?"

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Global Giving

MAY 11, 2018

This definition is broader than past privacy laws, and it may impact data that previously was not subject to regulations. You need to have a lawful basis for processing information. In order to process individual data under GDPR, your organization must have a lawful basis to do so. GDPR applies to all data about EU citizens.

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