Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
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.
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. Technological Protection Measures. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It doesn’t cover movies.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 5, 2013
I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! copyright exception. After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world.
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. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)
VisionLink
JULY 4, 2011
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, Three hundred million Americans, each with our own story, each of us self-evidently endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. government and states like Texas. I’d like to share our experience with Lavelle, where they took a series of calculated risks in grantmaking. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
In an article titled "Where Lying Was Business as Usual," Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. In no small measure, it stems from the remarkable discipline that went into building the paper.
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