Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.
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
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
Unfortunately, it’s too late for the authors to make much headway on their argument, which is that allowing purchasers of ebooks to have them read aloud by synthetic speech trespasses on the audio rights for their books. But that has nothing to do with whether distributing text ebooks is a violation of the separate rights for an audio book.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 17, 2006
My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. I also discovered CCMixter and where you search for music by tag.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 11, 2006
Ask your organization's web site udience to upload their video clips to whatever video service you're using and tag them with your organization's tag. (I YouTube keeps the copyright, some others don't. One of the points is a sort of "web the media" take. Then check with a lawyer."
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2007
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. These are shorter sessions focused on tagging. The first session will introduce tagging and social bookmarking and an exercise. Interactive. Collaborating. Data easy to reuse.
See3
FEBRUARY 22, 2008
Video We recommend the following settings: MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format 640×480 resolution (* most updated recommendation) MP3 audio 30 frames per second Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your videos look better on YouTube. What’s the best format to upload for high quality?
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