Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I had never heard of it.
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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. My hope is that publishers will decide to take the locks off their ebooks, like the makers of digital software and of digital music. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.
VisionLink
JULY 4, 2010
Today, 234 years after the start of the American Revolution, let’s not focus on the band playing our music. Listen to the music we are making. That’s our voice we hear, we, the people, governing ourselves as best we can just like we’ve been doing for 234 years. © Copyright 2010. Listen to our voice, the voice of America.
See3
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
It shows that it’s not just nonprofits who are getting into the online video game, but also government. It is really making fun of this investment in video and while certainly they can’t compete on YouTube views, I think there is very good reason for our government to extend their PR work to web video.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 1, 2007
How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? The Brazilian government distributed this drug to each of their 203,000 AIDS patients free of charge. Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? Many nonprofit want to "protect" their content.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Moreover, these accessible books are available for free, since the United States Government funds the Bookshare library to meet requirements in national disability rights and education laws. The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment.
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