Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 5, 2009
We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Most of this community doesn’t have access to formal education, most of this community doesn’t have access to jobs and most of this community isn’t recognized by larger society as equals.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2023
On the one hand, was the “Evil Robots Overlords” view that we will never control AI and it will control us and take over all our jobs through automation. As people begin to use these creator tools in different fields and jobs, including fundraising as the example in the Chronicle piece illustrates, there are some benefits.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 18, 2012
Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous. Make no mistake, we are for the Internet, we are for jobs, we are for legal access to content, and we are for human rights and freedom of speech. But, we're not for piracy.
.orgSource
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Even when you love your job, without the right support, it’s easy to experience symptoms of leadership fatigue like these. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. The thrill might not be gone. But genuine excitement is harder to find. Being in the first chair feels like living in a bubble.
Forum One
MARCH 12, 2024
And is it so good that it will put me out of a job?) There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. AI is an impact multiplier for mission-driven organizations since nearly all already do a lot without enough resources.
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. So, in the U.S.,
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. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books.
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