Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. copyright law.
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
APRIL 24, 2018
This seemed exceptionally clever: even if we lost money, we’d be successful by definition as a deliberately nonprofit tech company! In late 1999, I had just seen the original Napster product, and I knew we had thousands of families scanning the same Harry Potter book on our reading machines for people who were blind or dyslexic.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. It does that in two main ways.
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. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 3, 2016
We know a great deal about this Treaty, which is designed to help people who are blind or have other disabilities that interfere with reading, such as dyslexia. Our nonprofit organization operates Bookshare , the largest online library in the world that focuses on the needs of people with these disabilities.
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. The name is a misnomer: it’s designed for all people with print disabilities. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR).
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