Accessibility Audio Copyright Policy 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.
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. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2016
This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. From Arkenstone to Bookshare The field of access to books by blind people is where Benetech has twice been the key engine of positive equilibrium change at scale, and we are already working on the third change.
Care2
AUGUST 12, 2007
blurs the on-line/off-line boundary by extending network access to PDAs and cellular phones. Such mobile social communities extend the reach of electronic social interaction to millions of people who dont have regular or easy access to computers." More and more mobile social networks are becoming easier to access.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 7, 2013
The goal of the treaty is to make it possible for people who are blind, or have other print disabilities, to get access to the books they need for education, employment and inclusion in society--no matter where they live. We are at a point where accessibility can and should be the default mode for all books. under a Treaty.
Non Profit Quarterly
AUGUST 3, 2022
When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g.,
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