Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2009
Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S. My impression from additional tweets, emails, posts and articles is that the French are really leading the charge against a treaty. Tags: print disabled blind SCCR18 copyright copyfight SCCR Bookshare WIPO.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. Noteworthy Articles in the Treaty: Article 2(a). Article 2(c). Articles 5 and 6.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2023
The article reinforces the message we’ve shared for years that these tools can benefit nonprofits in many ways, especially small nonprofits. The article warns as we do in our book that the danger is that nonprofits will grab the software off the shelf before its limitations are understood.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 21, 2007
Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. As noted in the article, Once rules are removed, people become considerate. iron cage of copyright???
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. Being silent on the big issue of circumvention would lead to a world where accessibility could be prohibited by contract.
Media Cause
DECEMBER 21, 2022
And this applies directly to my main concern: copyright infringement and/or usage without consent. In a recent article about this topic, author Sharon Goldman presents varying schools of thought. This is where the whole thing gets very murky very quickly.” ” Potential Risks of AI-Generated Imagery. Rights Issues.
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