Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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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. The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. Bookshare is terrific, but it’s fundamentally a separate system where a specialized library becomes the primary source of books for its patrons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The idea for iFixit came about after Kyle dropped his Apple iBook and tried to fix it, but discovered that there was no service manual for the computer. If we open up most of our devices, we are usually violating the warranty and (in some cases) federal law. Library of Congress, working with the U.S. The Story of iFixit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. One of the most powerful industries on the planet, which already has loads of treaties and laws protecting its interests, needs to find balance against some of the most economically and information disadvantaged people on the planet? under a Treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). I had a joint meeting (both Republicans and Democrats) with the key Senate Judiciary Committee staff who are the copyright experts, and learned a lot about the process. The Marrakesh Treaty. Student privacy. Enough said! Roger Martin).

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