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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. But, the Treaty does lean much more in the direction of a copyright exception without a commercial exemption.

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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. Or file a DMCA notice. Now, apparently, we can file a counter-notice. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on.

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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. Or file a DMCA notice. Now, apparently, we can file a counter-notice. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. 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.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. MyDigitalBridge.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Do you feel the force.

ASU Lodestar Center

Intrigued by the title, I decided to throw it in my "read while on an airplane" file. The second came involuntarily as slaves from Africa. Last year, I was introduced to a report called "Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector." These waves have been met with resistance, even violence at times.