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Disney Mashup on Fairuse and Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via Amalyah Keshet and Wired Magazine " Hijacked Disney Characters Explain Copyright " The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden , came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. Stanford's Fair Use Project--to which Stanford Law professor, Copyright guru, Creative Commons advocate and Wired.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Accessibility and ACTA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The digital measures designed to defeat piracy usually end up equating accessibility with piracy. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. Why have a legislature?

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Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, a robot designed to flip burgers for a fast food restaurant had to be reprogrammed because humans could not keep up with its pace. Robot lawyers probably won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or write elegant legal briefs just yet. (That technology is already here and is used on Facebook to tag photos of people).

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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Basically, looking at lots of web pages and analyzing/evaluating their design, navigation, and other criteria. They are using copyrighted music, but give a big disclaimer and plea to support those musicians by buying their music. It is seven minutes long flash movie file produced at 640x480. Technical Observations.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » I am Michael Hoffman

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And one of these Michael Hoffman’s is a director — so he is in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and that helps his Google rankings. In fact, there are several Michael Hoffman’s in IMDb, including a sound and costume designer. You see, Michael Hoffman is actually a pretty common name. Naval Academy.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Since this is a movie or visual, it has to be explained in a visual way. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. So, perhaps widgets should be designed to reach first-timers or new readers. What is a Widget?

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