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.

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Copyright Social Law Student 158

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). Obviously for me, publishing eBooks is going to be something I do at some point, perhaps sooner rather than later.

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eBook Amazon PDF Adobe 168

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management). You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.”

Accessibility 171

Accessibility eBook New York City Social 171

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few people want to read a 388-page book online, and I've received several notes from people who checked out the online version and then decided to buy a physical or ebook copy. Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? I figured the same system would work for the book, and so far, it seems to be bearing fruit.

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Participatory Museum Process Adobe 33

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. It also creates digital documents like eBooks, reports, PDFs, and webpages. Some of them are really easy to use and some of them are geared to professional quality image editing.

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Images Software Free Adobe 56