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
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. a11y accessibility blind Bookshare copyright IP Marrakesh Treaty print disabilities visual impairment WIPO'
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Forum One
MARCH 12, 2024
Wednesday at the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), we’re pleased to be leading a session all about artificial intelligence (AI) for mission-driven social media. There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. If you aren’t attending NTC, don’t worry!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
She and her senior policy adviser, Hal Plotkin, are huge fans of Open Educational Resources (OERs), having been involved in starting that movement in community colleges. Tags: print disabled print disabilities Kanter Wiley Flatworld copyright OERs Creative Commons Schwarzenegger Plotkin CC Bookshare.
Robert Weiner
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
Copyright P. If you technology decisions at your organization are driven by some of the following, we’d love to see you at NTEN''s Nonprofit Technology Conference (aka the NTC): We chose the system because we have a volunteer who knows it. Do you have policies and procedures telling people how to use your systems consistently?
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 18, 2010
And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Tags: roundup bigsociety bookmarks conference copyright facebook irl list millennials nonprofits photography postalicious privacy resources sharing slacktivism socialchange socialmedia sxsw virtualworlds.
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. It has a statement encouraging national copyright exceptions for people with print disabilities as a Good Thing™.
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