Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 7, 2013
We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. For example, in developing countries, we aim to help our members pursue educational and employment opportunities.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 7, 2009
She had been working in public health in Africa before heading to Stanford. This is unlike Bookshare, which is for the 1-2% of the population who qualifies for the copyright exemption. After all, that's the whole point of universal design ! I ran into a Stanford MBA student at TED, Joy Sun.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2010
with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Through this three-year project—made possible with support from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind as well as India’s adoption of a new copyright exception for people with print disabilities —we will pilot Bookshare International at scale in India.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders).
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MARCH 12, 2008
We all have different strategies and takes on how to reach out to potential donors,” said Nicole Eley of Africare, which sends development and relief aid to Africa. “Last month, The New York Times Magazine invited five interested parties to lunch to discuss the new world of educational philanthropy.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2016
Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. Right now we are successfully convincing major educational publishers to build accessibility features into their standard ebooks. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.
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