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Blue Avocado Presents: Copyright Concerns for Nonprofits – Live Q&A

Blue Avocado

Nonprofits often create content for awareness, fundraising, or educational purposes, and understanding copyright principles is essential. Register Now The post Blue Avocado Presents: Copyright Concerns for Nonprofits – Live Q&A appeared first on Blue Avocado. Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 11 am PT; 2 pm ET (60 min.)

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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

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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. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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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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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

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copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

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This technology is being used to create new forms of content, automate tasks that were once done by humans, and make it easier for people to infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of others. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. Sponsored by WorkerBee.TV

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Bookshare to Convert Open Content Textbooks to Accessible Formats

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our new announcement about the Department granting Bookshare supplemental funding to convert open content textbooks to accessible formats went over very well. We're promising to do highly accessible versions of 80 open content textbooks. There's even a quote from Governor Schwarzenegger in the press release!