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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This includes accessible educational materials, such as e-books that can be used with computers, or mobile devices that display enlarged text or read the book aloud while also highlighting text. with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. There are some 7.5 million students (15% of the U.S.

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Getting Close to a Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. The first issue is that the treaty would not permit direct access by consumers to international authorized entities.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » How many site visitors do you have? Or is that the wrong question?

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Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JUL 12, 2007 How many site visitors do you have?

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

from pitching your cause to donors and funding agencies, to delivering services to members and clients; and from seeking public support and the ear of decision-makers, to collaborating with other organizations in projects of common interest. Accessibility. and more precisely, the effective transfer or exchange of knowledge â??

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

It provides the basis for regular reporting on volunteerism by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The ASU Morrison Institute presents both numbers and asserts that both survey methods have strengths and weaknesses, likely leaving the true rate somewhere “between these two estimates.&# One in four.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

To make matters worse, Charity Navigator seemed standoffish and unwilling to work with the field or adjust its approach despite some pretty obvious shortcomings in its methods. Well, ratio analysis will still be part of the new package, but the old methods are being revamped and supplemented with more information about subject nonprofits.

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