Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

He considered himself a “problem-solving lawyer” and warned me against getting involved with “problem-creating lawyers!” As the prototypical technology social enterprise, Benetech became one of the first organizations using technology to solve social problems rather than seeking to make maximum financial returns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

The opposite, more utopian view was that AI was magic fairy dust and could wave a wand and solve all our problems. 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. In reality, both of these are false narratives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

As the most internationally engaged library for people with disabilities, we’re trying to find funding and partnerships to help bring both Bookshare’s collection and technology to bear on this problem. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. We’re always eager to problem-solve with you. Content needs to be checked and referenced, and sometimes falls short. Outsourcing your marketing entirely to AI will result in bad marketing and will hurt your brand.

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

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Through this three-year project—made possible with support from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind as well as India’s adoption of a new copyright exception for people with print disabilities —we will pilot Bookshare International at scale in India. Just have to find some time and money to tackle them!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. They include struggling readers whose learning problems have never been fully diagnosed. Benetech is working on a new program that will serve these students who are not qualified under the copyright exemption. There are some 7.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. Problems with the Treaty as is If the Treaty were passed as is, with all bracketed materials dropped, we see only two painful omissions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. Unfortunately, we can’t export these books, as other countries have copyright laws that we wouldn’t violate.

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Byte Technology

MAY 27, 2016

Sometimes, with custom site designs that aren’t pulled from existing templates, the designer has the right to copyright said design, which means you may be unable to take it to another designer should you choose and would have to start over from scratch if you decided to make a move. • The problem with this relationship?

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See3

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The video below is called “The Problem with Subsidies&# and it is a look at how US farm subsidies impact farmers in Africa. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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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. What don’t I have a problem with at this point? and there’s a general feeling something is going to happen. law today. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” The Problem with Traditional DRM Traditional “strong” Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions have traditionally been the most common way to control access to online books.

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See3

MAY 9, 2007

Even the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, which has put big resources into these issues couldn’t escape serious problems. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 15, 2009

And, registration of disability won't solve the problem of many people who aren't blind (perhaps they have disabilities that fall short of the traditional copyright exemption definition of disability). It's not fair to make us pay extra to be able to read if we're disabled. The Authors Guild has lost the framing debate.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

You want to avoid an agency where every problem looks like the perfect nail for their hammer. Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. copyright law. In the case of Bookshare, we’ve gone from solving a sliver of the problem to most of it, while hitting more than an order of magnitude reduction in cost.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

There's so much to talk about here with Amazon, so let me focus on just a few key points: The Closed Platform problem. The Textbook problem. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. The Closed Platform problem. The Textbook problem. The inability to support innovation is high on that list.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In underdeveloped countries, the biggest problem we face is that copyright issues have not been addressed by government in the local area," Viji told the magazine. "We In countries outside the U.S., getting permission to scan and upload books in accessible formats can be a slow and complicated process. "In

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S. And that's just two examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Update: Here's an email response I received from Amalyah who is an IP for museums expert: Munch's works are still protected by copyright, the term of which runs not. Munch died in 1944, so he is "in copyright" until 2014. have cleared copyright permission, because I just googled and don't see anything. Google must.

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Does anyone have a problem with Facebook dictating what they think that we think is important through secret algorithms? Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? What about proprietary algorithms like Klout that provide social scores to show brands or people’s “influence”? Here’s why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold. While that in itself probably qualifies us as one of India's largest children's book publishers, when compared to the scale of the problem - over 300 million children in India - it is still a minuscule effort. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

But, the cards are copyrighted by Gallup. Blogger has been having a few issues lately, but they're working to resolve their problems and will hopefully restore the comments soon. I have contacted them to see if we can share with select nonprofit audiences. I will keep you posted! May 13, 2011 12:03 PM Kayla said.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

You want to avoid an agency where every problem looks like the perfect nail for their hammer. Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Well, we do NOT have a fair use right to photograph, without the artist's permission, works protected by copyright -- wherever they are displayed -- except for certain very limited purposes, and property, privacy, and contract law may indeed preempt that. It's really out of our hands.

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See3

JANUARY 7, 2008

Last season’s look at education changed the way I will look at the problems of urban school districts. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license? I now need to figure out the production order so I don't run into problems. It includes classical, jazz, world, and beyond.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software. For this to work, the application must be governed by a copyright - this is what gives the original copyright holder the legal power to dictate how it may be duplicated. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities. Roughly 1–2 per cent of students in the United States meet these requirements.

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See3

DECEMBER 21, 2007

But I have come to believe that in this flat world of ours knowledge is the solution to these problems. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. No doubt kids have basic needs.

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

New Orleans had problems long before the hurricane and the destruction only has exacerbated a long list of problems. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

Here’s a cute video representation of the problem consumers have with traditional advertisers. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Be prepared for techy questions/problems and to help solve them to maximise your entries. You should also keep an eye on licensing and copyright. Video is a new genre and there is no standard format. Some people wanted to submit in Powerpoint (which wouldn't have been very viral!)

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

He suggests that the show should spend more time looking at the structural issues that are the root cause of the problem. All of this matters because there is no way for us as a society to address the problems that ail us, if we don’t know what those problems are.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2011

Part of the problem is that so many organizations fall under the umbrella of "nonprofit," which is a big stew of everything that isnt a government agency or registered as a business. The big problem with congregations is not in knowing how many there are, but instead in not knowing how much of our charitable contributions go to them.

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