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. national experience.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 16, 2011
Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. National organizations of the blind, as well as WBU, need to keep the pressure on publishers to build accessibility into their products. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.
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. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 15, 2009
President Marc Mauer of the National Federation of the Blind just had an excellent op ed published by the Baltimore Sun entitled Bias against blind book lovers. Mauer does a great job in capturing the advocacy position of the Reading Rights Coalition. This is a case of dueling moral high grounds. The RRC's motto is "No Need for Greed!
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