Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. After talking me out of calling it Bookster, he explained how the DAISY format would be ideal for our new Bookshare project, that he had made sure that it would work well for ebooks like the ones we were hoping to provide.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.
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. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2011
Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. Through the LIT project, we’re adding many new innovations to the groundwork laid by the B4E project, with a focus on three core areas: content, tools, and utilization.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.
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