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JULY 26, 2023
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 22, 2013
This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. A professional with expertise in assessing disabilities needs to certify each Bookshare member as meeting these qualifications (the copyright law in the U.S. Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. Human Rights Program policies: what are contingency/crisis plans for our staff? Will we act as a fiscal sponsor, something we’ve avoided to date?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 10, 2009
But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. If Kindle ebooks were available on the Web, other developers could fix many of its limitations such as lousy support for images, problems with complex layouts, inaccessibility.
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