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. of America v.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
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. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He My idea was completely legal!
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 24, 2018
When I explained that our board just didn’t see manufacturing reading machines for the blind making financial sense for a for-profit company, Gerry said “How about you set up a deliberately nonprofit tech company?” I went to Gerry with the idea for Bookster. He also firmly suggested that I needed to change the name.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 16, 2011
Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
I remember the day I told my wife, Virginia, that I’d do this “nonprofit thing” for just one year and then go back to regular for-profit high tech companies. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. That was over 24 years ago! We hope you’ll join us on this journey.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
Digital and mobile communications are changing the rules about social networks, intellectual property, and the availability of big data, with an overall blurring of the boundaries between state, for-profits, and nonprofits. At Benetech, we look to fill the gap between what’s possible and what’s profitable with technology.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
If you want to give nonprofits and other noncommercial ventures permission to republish your story, but don't want to allow a company to sell it for profit, there's a license for that. 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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