Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. But, the Treaty does lean much more in the direction of a copyright exception without a commercial exemption.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 30, 2013
You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” Fingerprinting – Embedding the user's name in plaintext in the downloaded ebook file and hiding the user ID information invisibly inside the main body of the book.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
finds that charities aren’t effectively engaging younger donors via mobile friendly channels like social media and mobile optimized websites. It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 11, 2006
" Also, the whole issue of how fragmented the "upload video space" might become, "Eventually it might look like the cable world of 500 channels, some with only 100,000 viewers and others with 2 million and few with 5 million." " (I can't resist adding: 5 billion channels and nothing to watch!).
Museum 2.0
APRIL 1, 2010
Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? Self-Publishing with Print-On-Demand "Print on demand" systems allow you to upload book files (usually PDFs), which are then used to print books to order. How Did I Do It? Once I decided to self-publish, I set out to find the best option to do so. I'm sure I did a lousy job.
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