Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception. And, that American copyright exception was the inspiration for the Marrakesh Treaty! law with the Treaty language.

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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. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S.,

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JANUARY 30, 2008

I tried to give them a framework in which to think about this kind of change and we discussed different models to explore and teach this subject. Come stand next to the Torah and simply witness those really cool letters, hand written while all kinds of crazy laws were followed. I too was thinking of it when reading these proposals.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results. In many respects, much of what Amazon does differs little from the model of Victorian capitalism.

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