Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. It does that in two main ways.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 17, 2015
The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. My idea was completely legal!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 3, 2010
It's still a journey we are on and we've had many success till date - Skype reading sessions across countries, helping us get books to children across the country, audio books created for the blind , iPad apps being made of our content and so much more. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2007
First, my preferred method of instruction is to be more interactive and facilitate discussion. Full of copyright issues. If I was in a room, live, I would have facilitated a brief conversation about the themes and interjected the themes into conversation - and then summarized them succintly with the slides. Data easy to reuse.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 11, 2006
I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. YouTube keeps the copyright, some others don't. The newswires were filled with stories about Google/YouTube Marriage yesterday.
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