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Why Your Country Should Ratify the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. It is politically popular.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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!

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

Nonprofits Source

Finally, use statistics, industry sources or research that supports your point of view to build authority around your article. According to industry research, emotional headlines drive more click and shares to your content. Avoid Copyright Infringement. Conclusion. The Value Proposition. Pop Filter: Earambler Pop Filter.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g.,

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