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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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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

Byte Technology

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Or having a writer steal a column from your blog and present it as their own work on their own site.

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

Candid

So in 2023, Candid’s executives, human resources team, compliance manager, and legal counsel collaboratively developed guidelines for AI use. Photo credit: SolStock via Getty Images The post Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy appeared first on Candid Blog.

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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. And new technology and new operational models are needed to do far more good with the same or fewer resources.

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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In November, I wrote a blog post entitled: Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill. Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous. And, let's follow up Blackout Day with a campaign to pass laws that protect this critically important resource!

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To paraphrase Mark Twain, I didn’t have time to write a short blog post, so I wrote a long one. There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled.

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AI for Social Media: Supercharge Your Copy, Images & Videos

Forum One

AI is an impact multiplier for mission-driven organizations since nearly all already do a lot without enough resources. There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. And is it so good that it will put me out of a job?)