Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

He considered himself a “problem-solving lawyer” and warned me against getting involved with “problem-creating lawyers!” That was how the organization we now know of as Benetech was created and how I became a social entrepreneur (this was more than a decade before we had heard the term). I went to Gerry with the idea for Bookster.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Successful organizations are leveraging the power of AI and social media to create more meaningful connections and foster community engagement. There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. But if you’re just starting out, you’re not behind!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. 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.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Here is a snapshot of what happened and our tips for creating short-form videos at your nonprofit. A snapshot of a year of video at Candid Over the past year, we created over 100 videos, featuring more than a dozen Candid staff members. Then, you won’t need to scramble to create something new.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways.

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2024

Mitigate risks in AI If not managed carefully, the use of AI technologies can pose risks such as potential copyright infringement, breach of confidentiality, inaccurate information, and unintentional bias. Candid uses AI to assist with tasks such as ensuring data accuracy, tagging data, creating content, and streamlining communications.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

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. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 19, 2013

Our library is made possible both by a domestic copyright exception that makes it possible for us to add any book requested by a blind person to our library, as well as strong cooperation with publishers who provide many of their books directly to our library for free, including the rights to serve people in certain other countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2014

Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

We were following in his footsteps, on a path he helped create! That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S. While we remain committed to serving people with disabilities, our work with Arkenstone and Bookshare has created a model that is being replicated by Benetech and many others in new fields.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This historic international copyright exception treaty paves the way for a future in which people who cannot read regular printed materials can have equal access to books, regardless of where they live. There is still much to do, however, before the treaty takes full effect.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. The third blog post in this series on Bookshare International will describe our adventures creating the library’s first offerings in Arabic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Communities posted by Hannah Humphrey , Public Allies Arizona Alumna / Outreach Coordinator, Xico What does it mean to be a community organization? Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Commu. Research Friday: Really, is the Nonprofit Sector B.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

These are exciting times for everyone who’s been working to meet the accessibility imperative, as we are witnessing global movements that will increase accessible publishing and create new and better opportunities for people with disabilities. The first is the shift to electronic distribution of published materials.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While there are risks of accepting in-kind donations, those risks can be offset by creating firm policies and guidelines surrounding the in-kind donations your nonprofit will accept. It can also include intangible property, such as copyrights and patents. Learn more about in-kind donations and how they can help your organization!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Creative Commons-licensed content is also a great resource for you when you're creating a digital story. Memes are a fun, easy way to create engaging content, especially for social media. 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

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Its greater scope creates additional challenges to get it passed. The WIPO Stakeholder’s Platform (WIPO-SP).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Through this three-year project—made possible with support from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind as well as India’s adoption of a new copyright exception for people with print disabilities —we will pilot Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

The issue with the amazing range of images that AI can create is that your content begins to lose the visual consistency of your brand. AI Image Generation Text Input Examples and Tutorial : A tutorial on AI image generation with text input examples and tips for creating effective prompts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We take their files and convert them to the DAISY format which is a digital format designed specifically to create accessible materials for people with print disabilities. More and more publishers are asking that we return to them the DAISY files we create. O'Reilly is again leading the charge. Why is this a big deal?

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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’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 2, 2012

Create rich, polished PDF files from any application that prints. Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Since the Holidays are in full swing and the New Year is approaching, we've decided to unveil our Acrobat Reader/Writer 2012. Advanced features include: - Collaborate across borders. Ensure visual fidelity. All rights reserved.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If we need visual representations of idea concepts to use in a presentation, we can rely on them to create beautiful, well-thought-out renditions of visual concepts. . It might have weird quirks, get close, and create a decent rendering like the one above. Who owns the AI art that is created? Rights Issues.

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VisionLink

APRIL 16, 2014

We have also created standards for the exchange of information about disaster shelters and about client records. Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. This does not mean that data should be kept private and self-contained.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It is the Power of We that changes the way we create transformative positive change. When Bookshare was first created, most people with print disabilities read printed material via books on tape or hardcopy Braille books delivered through the mail. copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

With this simple recipe, you can create a great text overlay image to illustrate a blog post and use on social channels in less than 15-30 minutes. Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. High Quality Ingredients. Kitchen Equipment. Balance, Font Readability, and Contrast. Have you incorporated text image overlays into your content strategy?

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ''We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'' -Martin Luther King, Jr. taking the other side''s perspective seriously, with respect; recognizing that those who hold a different perspective are also created equal.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ''We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'' -Martin Luther King, Jr. taking the other side''s perspective seriously, with respect; recognizing that those who hold a different perspective are also created equal.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

There's no question that social media gives us the power to easily create, curate, and share the precious moments of our lives. Pay attention to copyright - stealing content is not okay, so make sure you have the proper licensing and copyright to share your post. Think about the way you interact and engage with social media.

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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. I like our article, Finding and Using Images from the Web , with its basic precepts: If you or someone in your organization took a photo or created an image, you own it and can use it without permission. Copyright Office.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

It’s harder to create a fun event when everyone is sitting at home in front of their computer. Go into the planning stage of your virtual event with a can-do attitude, knowing you can create something fun and meaningful. You could also invite various local musicians to create a video of an ensemble cover of a popular song.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

When Bookshare was first created, we conceived of the concept of a digital library built by the people who use the library, instead of solely by librarians deciding what people with print disabilities should read. Using a provision of U.S.

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