Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater. So, in the U.S.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2010
A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. My number one job these days is talking to bold philanthropists who share my excitement about helping so many more people through factor of ten improvements.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 7, 2007
My first job in nonprofit and technology was as community manager for an online network of artists called ArtsWire in 1993 before the Web. For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) second enclosure???--the s about the money.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2007
Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! Full of copyright issues. I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2016
They put most nonprofits in the direct action without systems change box: groups that do a good (or even excellent) job of delivering services under the existing system. 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.
Care2
AUGUST 12, 2007
Audio/visual content and video in particular is rapidly moving to the mobile space as the number of video service providers increase and bandwidth reaches 3G capacity. August 12, 2007 | Francis Copyright © 2008, Care2.com This could finally make online fundraising a success. All rights reserved.
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