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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. In Authors Guild v. copyright law). copyright law). In September 2011, the Authors Guild sued the HathiTrust, alleging massive copyright violations.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. The new system was initially called BackRub because of the backlinking. We do not know the full power of artificial intelligence (AI) yet.

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Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Salesforce.org’s head of brand and insights, Devi Thomas, sat down with Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and author of Just Mercy, a book about his fight to help those wrongfully convicted on death row. When we built our National Memorial to the victims of lynching, we couldn’t do that.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

” California’s New Smartphone Kill Switch Law. California is finalizing a law that will mandate a ‘kill switch’ be included on all new smartphones. The problem this new law addresses is that last year an estimated 3.1 The effect of the law will be pretty fast.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. Roy Blount Jr.

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

Vu’s passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. There’s tons of humor in the nonprofit world, and someone needs to document it. ignitedfundraising.com. And counting.

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7 Ways to Honor Dr. King’s Legacy on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Saleforce Nonprofit

It emphasizes why direct action to break unjust laws is needed, rather than waiting for justice or equality to arrive. Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws eventually influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Read more black authors. Diversify Your Reading List. Day, or any day of the year!