Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From my college dorm room, where I thought that pattern recognition could do more than target missiles, to my first successful high tech company where we built technology that could read just about any font without training, to Benetech’s founding with the Arkenstone reading machine for the blind. That was over 24 years ago!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

That's a huge difference compared to copyrighted works that we convert under the copyright exemption, which we have to keep under tight controls to restrict copyrighted works to only the use of people with bona fide print disabilities in the U.S. Since they are open, we can get them and do the adaptations for accessibility.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 2, 2012

No company logo in the message (easy to fake, but many spammers don't bother). It lists an Adobe office in Canada, whereas the company is based in California. Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. The update site is instant-acrobat-upgrade.com, not adobe.com. The sender's address is @newsletter.northerntool.com.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

If you want to give nonprofits and other noncommercial ventures permission to republish your story, but don't want to allow a company to sell it for profit, there's a license for that. How can we use memes while still respecting copyright and making sure content creators get appropriate credit? Don't know what to ask?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

People with disabilities are repeatedly left out in the cold because accessibility concerns don’t rank high on tech company priority lists. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. Unfortunately, we can’t export these books, as other countries have copyright laws that we wouldn’t violate.

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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. We are consulted by policymakers, legislators, rightsholders, companies and activists for our insights. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Tags: roundup bigsociety bookmarks conference copyright facebook irl list millennials nonprofits photography postalicious privacy resources sharing slacktivism socialchange socialmedia sxsw virtualworlds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Further on the Twitter terms say, "Such additional uses by Twitter, or other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Twitter, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services."

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

Do they have a relationship with hosting companies? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Are they talking about the mobile audience, and how their design will accommodate users on smaller screens? Do they talk about where and how to host your web project? How will invoicing work?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Now, more than two decades later, social entrepreneurship is a hot global movement and Benetech has become the “go to” nonprofit software company in the heart of Silicon Valley. We address the market failure that occurs when the needs of the social sector don’t match the goals that for-profit companies consider worth pursuing.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. We are in pretty good company. Not sure it's OK to reuse our content?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone. If you give all knowledge away freely, you'll discourage people and companies from investing in creating valuable technology and content.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. YouTube currently has just two primary copyright types: Conventional copyright, in which the creator has full rights. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). I write a fair bit of science fiction, and also write other stuff. I’m talking in this post about self-publishing eBooks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After her surgery, Viji left her job at the startup company Net6 and volunteered for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Palo Alto, California. In underdeveloped countries, the biggest problem we face is that copyright issues have not been addressed by government in the local area," Viji told the magazine. "We

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

The most popular items (and usually the best selling) are often a unique experience, such as being CEO for a day of a local company, recording a song in a professional-quality recording studio, going behind the scenes at an aquarium, or hosting a margarita party at home with a bartender. Auctions are known to require tons of planning!

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? As organizations continue to invest more and more staff and resources into them, they should understand that social media is not all pretty rainbows that lead to a pot of gold. Social media can totally suck too. Here’s why. Check your settings now !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. They see copyright law as a way to control the way their message is distributed.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

Do they have a relationship with hosting companies? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Have they talked to you about the mobile audience, and how their design will accommodate users on smaller screens? Do they talk about where and how to host your web project? Support and Maintenance.

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See3

JANUARY 7, 2008

And belt tightening at the Tribune companies has gutted the Baltimore Sun’s newsroom. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. Bubbles seems clean, but for how long.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Amazon is the company that built Target's website. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. The disability community usually doesn't sue first and ask questions later: companies usually get a fair amount of time to respond to these concerns. Note that I'm not dinging the publishers here. The Textbook problem.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The following are five candidates for the practical values having foremost importance: Integrity Accountability Diligence Perseverance Discipline I know companies -- strong organizations -- centered on these values. Once a company starts to condone lying as a matter of course, it is headed for serious trouble. Copyright © Robert L.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 16, 2015

Just because an organization is labeled a “nonprofit,” that doesn’t exempt it from operating like a business—a nonprofit is a type of business, and many of the same rules that apply to a for-profit company also apply to a nonprofit organization. You need both a strategic plan and a business plan to ensure success. What You Offer.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. And that is for a different post. But in terms of digital advertising, some of their folks get it.

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See3

AUGUST 9, 2007

The famous Red Cross — that symbol of of safety and rescue — is actually owned by the American company Johnson & Johnson. The Red Cross has made a move in recent years that threaten the business interests of Johnson & Johnson by licensing the symbol to companies that make consumer medical products.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. We’re also continuing to see lots of articles like The Guardians’ “ How charities can make better use of social media.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. m not going to assert my copyright rights.??? The other way is if the copyright expires. This is how proprietary companies can jump on the os bandwagon.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Maybe they were too candid about their company or their boss. Tensions remain between making a profit and alienating Facebook’s users, who the company says total about 64 million worldwide (MySpace has an estimated 110 million monthly active users). Here’s what Yahoo! homepage looked like exactly 10 years ago today.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 3, 2008

Not to mention a (Canadian) copyright carol.Agam Shah reports:The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow this week, with Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

Facebook is still independent — they haven’t been bought by any big company yet. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. They are growing like crazy.

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See3

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Creating an age restricted, velvet rope around a label no Boomer wanted in the first place was the dumbest thing a web company could ever do. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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