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.
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.
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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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.
Media Cause
DECEMBER 21, 2022
I asked Rob Shaw, Art Director at Media Cause , for his thoughts on the implications of text-to-image technology: . 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. Rights Issues.
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.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. Social Media. Shared.com.
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