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Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Maybe Not

Tech Soup

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. Whether you need permission to post photos you take for your library or charity depends on how they will be used and if the people in the pictures can be identified.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Cloggers Awards Ceremony

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As you can see in my blog, the given one, there is a picture box contain many categories. m sure they are really interesting in seeing picture of Cambodia. Recently, he asked me if i can take some pictures of around Phnom Penh, and particularly, the Central Market. Tuosaman Audio Recorder Mam Sary

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So this goes way beyond just web pages and pictures, the identity. D) is to sending a letter with your picture in it as web 3.0(D) So this goes way beyond just web pages and pictures, the identity. D) is to sending a letter with your picture in it as web 3.0(D) D) is to going. there and having a cup of tea with them.

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Poisoning the Treaty for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the last few months we''ve seen the trade delegations from the United States and the European Union, at the behest of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), suddenly changed course and start advocating for positions that are contrary to current U.S. law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. 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.

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