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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Most of this community doesn’t have access to formal education, most of this community doesn’t have access to jobs and most of this community isn’t recognized by larger society as equals.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Or file a DMCA notice. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They put most nonprofits in the direct action without systems change box: groups that do a good (or even excellent) job of delivering services under the existing system. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. The Arkenstone reading tools became a key mode of independent access to books.

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Mobile Social Networks Get a Boost - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? I'm sure I did a lousy job. Self-Publishing with Print-On-Demand "Print on demand" systems allow you to upload book files (usually PDFs), which are then used to print books to order. How Did I Do It? The good news is that the final book really looks like a book.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Or file a DMCA notice. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups.

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