Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

What if we could scan once, proofread the resulting scan, and share that ebook with tens of thousands of eager readers? Gerry quickly did the legal research and came back to explain that my idea, which seemed like it should be illegal, was 100% permitted under an obscure provision of the copyright law!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Note, however, that if you reprint a work and if the copyright is called into question, the burden will fall on you to prove that you "believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that [your] use of the copyrighted work was a fair use," according to the U.S. Copyright Office. The nature of the copyrighted work.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While we are definitely not experts (every day we discover something new), we wanted to share what we have learned over the past year doing social media video. While video views are nice, we measure our success by engagement—using likes, comments, saves, or shares as our metrics. Share your ideas in the comments below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? The concept and mechanisms of licensing are introduced to people who would not previously consider copyrighting their works, and thus possibly commodify their creations. iron cage of copyright??? Creative Commons, writes Elkin-Koren, ???may For many people the phrase ???CC

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! copyright exception. After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

The article reinforces the message we’ve shared for years that these tools can benefit nonprofits in many ways, especially small nonprofits. This is especially true with the advancing sophistication of recently released “creator tools,” (AI-infused tools that generate images, text, or videos).

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

We’ll share more after the session and dive into some of the questions we’ll tackle here: Everything’s changing so fast, is everyone already using AI? There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. If you aren’t attending NTC, don’t worry!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. He also talks about his Utilikilt.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Remarks Here are my remarks to the Leadership Conference on receiving the Migel Medal from Carl Augusto and Paul Schroeder of AFB: It’s a great honor to address the leadership of this field, and receive the Migel Medal in recognition of our shared commitment to service to the community of people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Sharing is an essential part of storytelling, and our friends at Creative Commons are devoted to expanding the number of creative works that are available to (legally!) use, build on, and share. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

."" Photographs, Digital Rights & Social Media Events | Geoff Livingston's Blog – Geoff shares a recent example of his attendance at an event where he was photographed and his images shared. And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

The political footballs being tossed around are about competency and sequencing: does the European Union (EU) get to sign and ratify the Treaty (exclusive competence), or do all of the countries in the EU have to ratify first (shared or mixed competence)? I was able to share some of our plans at Benetech around implementing the Treaty.

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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. You can read about the latest developments in the effort to make it legal for people with print disabilities to share books across borders in my recent blog post.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 2, 2012

Encrypt and share PDF files more securely. - Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Advanced features include: - Collaborate across borders. Create rich, polished PDF files from any application that prints. Ensure visual fidelity. Use the standard for document archival and exchange. We hope to see you in the New Year.

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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. It has a statement encouraging national copyright exceptions for people with print disabilities as a Good Thing™.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

The Flickr photo sharing service has teamed up with TechSoup Stock to offer premium "pro" accounts to individuals within eligible organizations. We will explore how to make the most of Flickr and other photo-sharing and editing webtools for your organization. We will share tips for organizing and managing your photos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Instead of deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our users decide which books to scan and share with each other under an exception in the U.S. copyright law. Valuing partnership over going alone is one of the Seven Benetech Truths that I shared in a recent blog post.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

There's no question that social media gives us the power to easily create, curate, and share the precious moments of our lives. Pay attention to copyright - stealing content is not okay, so make sure you have the proper licensing and copyright to share your post. What sort of content do you gravitate towards?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 11, 2011

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). Never share it with anyone, and avoid logging in to fraudulent Websites by always visiting www.westernunion.com directly. This one is kind of funny. Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. And Claire Sale shared the British Red Cross guidelines: The British Red Cross values comments both complimentary and critical. Read the full transcript here! Join the January Chat!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. We share Creative Commons' belief in the free flow of information.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. Google's video sharing service, YouTube , is the big dog in online videos. Vimeo is another major video-sharing website. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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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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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

I share this dream. I have shared it my entire life. Imagine if we stepped up and did our part to make it happen, treating each other with respect, with understanding, with compassion and with that special feeling that we are part of a shared American community. Copyright © 2014. Free at last! Stan Stahl, Ph.D.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

Prompt Library on Twitter : A Twitter account that shares AI-generated prompts and resources. Share your prompt library and encourage team members to contribute ideas and feedback. Ensure that the images you create do not infringe on copyrights, promote harmful content, or misrepresent your organization.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

I share this dream. I have shared it my entire life. Imagine if we stepped up and did our part to make it happen, treating each other with respect, with understanding, with compassion and with that special feeling that we are part of a shared American community. Copyright © 2013. Free at last! Stan Stahl, Ph.D.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.”

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

While these legal disclaimers are to empower other users to share content, each network uses content differently. This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it." Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities states, ".you

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

And, of course, there are benefits to visual content like increased engagement. A popular type of DIY (do-it-yourself) visual is “text overlay,” used to illustrate a blog post or shared on Facebook. Here’s a simple recipe for creating one. High Quality Ingredients. Kitchen Equipment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There have been occasions where new technology was introduced and the publishers made the money and the authors did not get a share. If people starting taking audio versions of their Kindle books and distributing them, they would of course be violating copyright.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Today I’m delighted to share the exciting news about the new award we just received from OSEP to build upon Bookshare’s success and significantly improve access for students with disabilities. Bookshare is allowed to serve only students with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Napster made me think of how peer-to-peer information sharing could help people with disabilities. I figured that if one Bookshare user thought a book was worth scanning, then that book was worth sharing with people around the U.S. copyright law. who also had print disabilities.

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