Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 22, 2013
The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
federal law supports braille instruction. Today Bookshare adds around 3,000 books per month to the collection, with our publisher and electronic distribution partners supplying most of these books, at the same time as they go to electronic retailers like Amazon. Accordingly, U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2016
Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. 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. Fast forward to today.
Non Profit Quarterly
AUGUST 3, 2022
When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. At first glance, it’s not entirely obvious what Amazon gets out of the platform. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g.,
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