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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . BackRubbing doesn’t work.

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917. To provide some relief for these steep rates, the federal government provided ways for households to reduce their taxable income. The charitable deduction is a vital nexus between the general public, the nonprofit organizations they support, and government policy.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. government and states like Texas.

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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!