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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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Watch Your Content: Protecting Your Website Against Copyright Infringement

Byte Technology

So it’s little surprise that the massive proliferation of online resources has spawned a major problem: protecting website content from copyright infringement in the form of plagiarism or outright theft. Thankfully, there are preventative measures you can take to protect your web content copyrights.

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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

The more that community resource information is used, the more good that can result. Enforcing copyright over data collections is possible, but other measures are often more efficient and less costly. We have also created standards for the exchange of information about disaster shelters and about client records.

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Solutions Day 2023—It’s Happening!

.orgSource

Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. There are resources you might be able to manage without, but trust is not one of them. Nonprofit attorney Kimberly Pendo, a founding member of Chicago Law Partners, is going to discuss the issues we all need to understand. How do we stay on track and meet our goals?

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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility blind Bookshare copyright IP Marrakesh Treaty print disabilities visual impairment WIPO'

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Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy 

Candid

So in 2023, Candid’s executives, human resources team, compliance manager, and legal counsel collaboratively developed guidelines for AI use. Setting a framework for AI use At Candid, we acknowledge AI’s value in helping us improve the ways in which we support the social sector through information.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. But, the Treaty does lean much more in the direction of a copyright exception without a commercial exemption.