Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Access to information and knowledge is a basic human right and a necessary first step towards personal, economic, and social development. The good news is that there are now unprecedented opportunities to transform the lives of these millions by removing barriers of access to information  —   and this is where you can help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

We are joining with our peers in the disability and library community in a joint statement to strongly encourage the Senate to ratify the treaty and for Congress to implement the minor legislative changes recommended as part of the package. The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. We blew up the old approaches to converting inaccessible books into accessible equivalents. copyright law. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The cost of prototyping and deploying new technology tools is now extremely low and data has the potential to accelerate social progress in areas ranging from poverty to human rights, education, health, and the environment. Case in point: our accessible online library, Bookshare.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson spoke at Salesforce.org’s Education Summit where he shared jarring statistics, including that one in three black male babies in this country is expected to go to jail in his lifetime. I’m still burdened with this presumption of dangerousness and guilt, despite my education, and what I’ve achieved. They were assaults.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. Department of Education).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

From the beginning, it was about jobs, education, and money. Gender parity in education and equal pay for equal work are unresolved issues in 2017. women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. Law and Advocacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

During that time, we’ve grown from offering one product to offering many products and services, in four program areas: education, human rights, the environment, and, now, tech volunteerism. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. The DMCA 1201 ruling on ebook access through DRM circumvention was clearly aimed at us: should we take up the challenge? when we bring them to developing world countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? As an independent territory of the United States, the schools of Puerto Rico are subject to the same federal laws and IDEA initiatives as every school in the 50 states.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. intranet) access, AUPs are important to protect young users against. to or accessing the network. organization’s data if the user is an employee) when accessing or while. device to access your network, your AUP should address who is.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Pew reports that the groups least likely to want to use the Internet are senior citizens, disabled people, monolingual Spanish speakers, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

A version of this post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. What About Nonprofits and Libraries? suggests just that.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for those with permanent or temporary disabilities, these companies are accused of violating Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by lacking the proper digital accommodations to enable access to their coveted online offerings. Everybody deserves to have that full and equal access to the world around them.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Published on SANGONeT's content portal, NGOPulse, the organizations profiled range from education, social outreach, poverty relief, environment, and more. The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. Children and Education. Art and Media. About SANGONet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The centerpiece of the meeting on Guam was the first leadership meeting of the Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project, or Pacific CIMAP for short. We met with the special education directors and curriculum chiefs of each state. education laws as part of receiving extensive funding.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Nonprofits and libraries have used Shopify in some amazing ways. Library book sales. environmental education); Amnesty International (see below); and Punjammies (helping women who have been rescued or have escaped from a life of forced prostitution). Laws for Organizations that Accept Online Payments. Shopify in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Its projects in Japan focus on educating and connecting Japanese youth with the young people KnK serves outside of Japan. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti. Our Local Impact Map.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

TechSoup is participating by amplifying what other agencies, collaborators, and libraries in our network are doing to raise awareness on this important issue. The organization says its mission is "to support, educate, and empower the multicultural communities of North Texas. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. This introduces new donors to the community and educates them about the issue and ways to get involved. You’re trying to raise money, so you need to ask for it!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The application purports to claim the trademark “social enterprise” in five areas: computer software, business services, educational services, on-line software and social networking services. Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

From Arkenstone to Bookshare The field of access to books by blind people is where Benetech has twice been the key engine of positive equilibrium change at scale, and we are already working on the third change. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. The power of Del.icio.us

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