Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Those that are published don’t actually reach many of the people who might want to read them because of affordability. It made me who I am. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. This seemed exceptionally clever: even if we lost money, we’d be successful by definition as a deliberately nonprofit tech company! I went to Gerry with the idea for Bookster.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

" People just like it. It's definitely easier to grab great videos off the Internet to put on your website or blog than to make them. Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. The standard YouTube license is restrictive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I just got back from a terrific week in Austria at the International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs conference. This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities. And that's just two examples.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. It’s definitely a thing to watch. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. But the GPL very much reflects US copyright law.

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