Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It was again a grant from the Lavelle Fund (our third) that allowed us to develop the ability to provide accessible MP3 audio versions of our materials and realize the enormous potential impact of mobile reading options for individuals with print disabilities. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

civil rights laws succeeds, people with disabilities will be yet again be denied equality.' That''s why we''re happy to stand in solidarity with NFB and our peers in the disability and accessibility worlds. If this attempt by Amazon and their peers to weasel out of accessibility requirements built into U.S.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

Consider in-person opportunities, such as events or meetings, to capture video or audio testimonials. Ensure this system respects privacy laws and regulations, especially regarding data protection and consent. These can be more personal and engaging. Engaging Your Community: Involve your community in this campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it! at the end of their try-before-you-buy audio tracks referring listeners to Magnatune; 2) Include credit information on the website or other source from where the content is being downloaded, for example, on the page for American Bach Soloists Favorite Cantatas album.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

She offered some real-life examples, such as a services firm that created an internal “Taskrabbit” system to more effectively utilize all available skills, time, and capacity within the organization, and a law firm that created peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing networks for all employee groups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Foundations and the Law." Carolina School of Law and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from. Sheila Warren: As general counsel of NGOsource and TechSoup Global , Sheila Warren provides guidance on international philanthropy law, oversees the equivalency determination review team, and educates the. grantmaking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. Our commitment to braille literacy means that the entire Bookshare collection of over 198,000 titles (and counting) is available not only for use in text, audio or the combination, played with a wide variety of assistive technology tools, but also formatted for use on electronic braille displays.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

law that covers this is called the right of publicity. This means that the rules for consent apply not only to photos, but also to videos and audio recordings. The following rules of thumb are abstracted from Bryan Carson's Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library. How to Get Consent for Photos, Videos, and Audio.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. I actually think they’re getting less by stopping people from buying ebooks who are unlikely to buy audio books at higher prices. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. national experience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Over the past year, many different initiatives and projects have emerged that focus on tracking people killed during interaction with law enforcement. The image gallery is visually high-impact, and details on every person killed by law enforcement are noted on a datacard, providing information surrounding his or her death.

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BoardAssist

JULY 30, 2014

Contains procedures for reporting violations or suspected violations of laws and organizational policies. Board members may participate in a meeting by video or audio conference. Is distributed to all directors, officers, employees and volunteers that provide significant or substantial services. NYS Attorney General. Nixon Peabody.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Under federal law, a website must be compliant with the Section 508 accessibility standards (which, since 2018, include the internationally-recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ) if the website works with/for the federal government. We have the technology and techniques necessary to make the web adequately accessible.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. Creative Commons basically provides a free and standardized legal infrastructure that joins up the free flow of online information with traditional copyright laws that were devised in an earlier age. Ready to Go Creative Commons?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2016

This can easily happen in a virtual meeting too, because typically you're down to audio information alone. Her particular speciality areas as a writer include technology, science, technical writing, business, law, finance, insurance, education, course development, copywriting, academic writing, and other nonfiction.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

My talk will flesh out this line of thought with examples from science, the arts, politics, and law. For information about our event webcasts and remote participation, see [link] If you miss the live chat, catch the podcast audio video at MediaBerkman, at [link]. For an amusing preview of the kind of analysis I???

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! This law ensures that information is available to those with disabilities. AA standards, which includes captioning and audio description requirements. For example, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Kim Pichda I am Kim Pichda, a third year law student in PUC and also an administrative assistance and librarian of PUC Legal Clinic. Under the legal clinic program, my team and I have been teaching street laws to high students in Phom Penh and in the provinces. Tuosaman Audio Recorder Mam Sary Read his blog post about winning ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all. From the site: "The WITNESS Hub and Google Earth are working with the Every Human Has Rights campaign to build a global digital databank of human rights stories, in text, audio and video." Nobody has the right to torture you. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

He described the curriculum where inmates learn both computer skills and the recording/audio production skills and the classroom space (with "walls made of radio signals"). The culture: He explained some of the historical tensions between the prison staff and inmates - how it is changing through the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Charlie Nesson , Founder Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, also reflects on the Clay Shirkey post and the description of the "one time look virus." In reading Nesson's post, I was fascinated with the description of Harvard Law School's virtual court project: my sense is that second life is an ideal environment for mock trials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Policing Social Media These two items were both found in the nptech tag stream: Due to a new wiki launched by New Zealand police, members of the public can now contribute to the drafting of a new law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

" Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble. Yikes, there are no rules.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Another one that I wanted to do would be, and that I'm actually looking into, is it's California law that if you lay off 50 people or more in the next six months you have to announce that and make that public. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

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. Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. Fast forward to today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Bio: Gautam John is a lawyer with a focus on copyright laws. We have now now released 100 more children’s books (in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Gujarati) as well as the illustrations from these books under a CC-BY license. Crossposted at the Creative Commons Weblog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. One of the most powerful industries on the planet, which already has loads of treaties and laws protecting its interests, needs to find balance against some of the most economically and information disadvantaged people on the planet? Conflicts with American Law.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Here’s a list of equipment and software I’ve used in the past to create 5-10 minute demo videos: Microphone: Audio-Technica. Creating your own images is a great way to grow your search traffic, build brand awareness, and protects against copyright laws. Pop Filter: Earambler Pop Filter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. FOSS, Audio and Video for Activism and Advocacy. Here is an excellent screencast, an introduction to Linux (Ubuntu).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. The Digital category, won last year by Wikileaks, awards innovative digital content appearing for the first time on a UK-based website and covers news, blogs, features and comment or debate, audio and visual material. What that means is that in order to set up the.cn

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. 45 Now these refugees, prisoners and victims of occupation are forced into microwork by law or circumstance, to undertake the grave work of furthering the superfluity of others.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And the podcasts became an extension of that, because I realized I wanted to do interviews, and it was a great way to do the interviews and have them in an audio form for people who are interested in audio, and then also I get them transcribed and put them on the blog. And I started working with a community outside of St.

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