Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally.

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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. 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 27, 2013

Digital and mobile communications are changing the rules about social networks, intellectual property, and the availability of big data, with an overall blurring of the boundaries between state, for-profits, and nonprofits. copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Sally and Roger's book challenged me to do just that. By the time of Bookshare’s creation in 2001, new and better XML digital book formats had been developed. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This is where our challenge lies – to massively scale the production of high quality, low-cost children’s books for a massively multi-lingual and multi-cultural market. Looking at this challenge it is fairly obvious that this is not a problem that any one organization can solve. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

This screencast focuses on how nonprofits can use flickr and creative commons licensing to search for powerful visuals to use in their presentations without violating copyright laws. So, let's get back to the challenge of finding powerful visuals to illustrate a point or a story in your presentation.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? Digital Marketing Plan Chapters. Chapter 3: Digital Promotions. What Is A Digital Marketing Process? I know at times it may feel like a lot to juggle. Work smarter, not harder. Chapter 1: Introduction.

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