Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 19, 2013
We have 197,000 books available in the United States today, and serve 250,000 people , mainly in the United States, but also in 40 other countries. a11y Marrakech exceptions accessibility print disabilities blind copyright dyslexia SCCR libraries publishing WIPO Reading Rights Coalition commerciality'
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He I had never heard of it.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 7, 2013
Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. Moreover, Bookshare basically breaks even in the United States thanks to contracts to provide the services, from the U.S.
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