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. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . •
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. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.
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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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 9, 2007
Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. " 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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 15, 2006
more preposterous than proposing an immersive MUVE communications revolution). 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." I also have been around this. a couple of times and yet fall into the web 3.0, D) is to going.
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. Such ideas furnish a neoreactionary milieu that sees democracy as anathema to the smooth functioning of an automated society and that proposes to replace democratic states with CEO monarchs.
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