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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.,

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Lewis Hyde at Berkman Center - OMG!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

Nonprofits Source

But if you’re like me, you constantly find ways to maximize your productivity to get the job done. Avoid Copyright Infringement. In Google, you also have the option to filter out copyrighted images under the tools section. I know at times it may feel like a lot to juggle. Work smarter, not harder.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Google and Facebook have been clear that the ultimate role of content moderators is to automate their own jobs away. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., Phil Jones. Grave Work.”

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