Adopt Audio Copyright Library 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. My idea was completely legal!
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 17, 2015
The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. It is politically popular.
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.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities. Roughly 1–2 per cent of students in the United States meet these requirements.
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