Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. which has secured a series of legal victories.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. The Bookshare breakthrough was to put our users in charge of the collection; we created a crowd-sourced library built by and for the people it serves. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

But we have far more opportunities to respond to these gaps then we can possibly take on, so we use our New Project Framework to identify the one project each year that offers the greatest chance of making a difference. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. There’s a wide range of permissiveness in different school. and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment. Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

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. Thanks to e-book technology, Bookshare today serves over 300,000 students with a collection of more than 300,000 accessible books – the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. Rather than discussing private information about our users, we will answer these questions with information on how Bookshare operates and what typical schools and users would see at different times in using Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. The difference is that the social entrepreneur pursues change at scale primarily as a tool for social justice, not private enrichment. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Are the results different? t doing something different - same staff, same tasks - but you are doing it a bit differently. Will it make a difference?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). The Marrakesh Treaty. Student privacy.

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