Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. copyright law). copyright law). It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. In Authors Guild v.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. Ultimately, this community should have equal access to all of the books that are needed for education, employment and social inclusion. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

Gerry was one of the earliest computer software attorneys, and even wrote one of the first books on the subject. In late 1999, I had just seen the original Napster product, and I knew we had thousands of families scanning the same Harry Potter book on our reading machines for people who were blind or dyslexic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If you can buy a book, you can’t borrow it. That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Marrakesh is intended to end the book famine for people who can’t read regular books because of their disability.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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. It’s expensive to make braille books. The biggest challenge for access is that it’s expensive. So, in the U.S., So, in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world. The second principle is sourcing locally relevant content.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it! Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! copyright exception. More to come as we work to ratify—and eventually implement—the treaty, and bring an end to the global accessible book famine!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was delighted to speak at the November 15th joint plenary session on “The Right to Read” campaign to achieve a world where published books are accessible and available to all individuals who are blind or have other disabilities. This shift is already happening in major markets: Amazon.com now sells more digital books than print books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I think it’s time to write a series of short essays on the struggle for accessible books, starting with this brouhaha. years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. The essence of the Soundproof Book essay was the dueling moral high grounds: author’s rights vs. the right to access. This isn’t a new issue. The ship has sailed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Source: Pratham Books. Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. Content contained in square brackets in the draft is still being negotiated, and the remaining content is assumed to be agreed (at least, we certainly hope so!).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. The majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Our commitment is to provide access to books for those who are unable to read a traditional print format and to do so without harming the economic interests of authors and publishers. You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” See you there!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

One attendee pointed out that the cross-border sharing of content wouldn’t be of much use unless you had the USA or Europe on board: that’s where a lot of content will come from for people with print disabilities in the rest of the world. Let’s hope the USA does ratify this year (I'm certainly part of that effort)!

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

The issue with the amazing range of images that AI can create is that your content begins to lose the visual consistency of your brand. Objects and Content : Next, consider what specific objects, contents or subjects you want to include in the image. Do you want a portrait, a landscape, an object, an abstract design?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Through the LIT project, we’re adding many new innovations to the groundwork laid by the B4E project, with a focus on three core areas: content, tools, and utilization. Bookshare is allowed to serve only students with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Accessibility of digital media has been repeatedly and systematically denied because of digital measures to “protect” content. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. Why have a legislature?

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Causes and associations provide status updates on the networks, post links, publish content via tools like Facebook Notes, groups on Linked In and Facebook, and ask questions on all of the services. Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit.

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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 signals from a few European countries on its likely content have not been encouraging.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

I questioned her about how technology could help the health field, and she quickly came up with where she thought maximum leverage could be applied: helping those who are students in the health field get access to the content/textbooks they need. But, all the students had cell phones.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

What do we need to understand about copyrighted material and our content strategy? Each chapter of the book ends with some focus questions and checklist for a work plan. The book covers much more than legal issues related to your organization’s communications strategy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

I have held the Manzanar High School Year Book. We have people proofreading books from their homes who might never get to interact with one another were it not for Bookshare. is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. I have done research on hallucinogenic toads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. Why didn't they link to the original context?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere. This is because e-books (unlike traditional print) can easily be rendered in many different ways and presented in the format that best suits one’s needs.

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See3

MAY 9, 2007

and losing control of content. How do we take advantage of user-generated content and user-controlled forums such as MySpace and YouTube without totally losing control of our brand? It’s the magic question. The answer is, very very carefully. Their case is special, however.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

While some aspects are quite technical and specific, it should be useful for anyone considering writing a book for a niche audience. I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Why Self-Publish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I Own Creative Content, Therefore I Am, Not??? For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) He is currently at work on a book about that vast, unowned store of ideas, inventions, and art that we have inherited from the past. second enclosure???--the

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license? I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. The use of widget must be linked to the topic, content, or purpose of your blog. Streaming Headlines or Other Content from other Blogs or Links. - RSS widgets as seen on AFP Blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! million per year to provide accessible book services to students with qualifying print disabilities nationwide. serving students with print disabilities.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

In the end, when “viralness” happens -- whether its a video, a petition or just a text piece that everyone keeps forwarding to friends and families -- we often arent sure exactly why this particular piece of content went viral. – Jessica Kutch, SEIU @Katrinskaya : Viral content = Stuff that gets forwarded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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