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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. “He Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Just Joined a New Federal Commission!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I recently was sworn in by Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter as one of nineteen people serving on the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities.

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Lame spam of the day: Notice from WesternUnion) : Account Deactivate.

Robert Weiner

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen. This one is kind of funny. Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence. To restore your account we have attached a form to this email.

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What to Do When Technology Isn’t Your Problem

Robert Weiner

Copyright P. It may seem like the wrong tool was selected, it doesn’t do what it was supposed to do, or the instructions aren’t written clearly enough. Mueller [link]. Does it feel like you never find the right combination of technologies to just make things work? We need to get this up and running in the next 3 weeks.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. copyright law. Our breakthrough with Bookshare was to put our users in charge of the collection. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure.

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Lame spams of the day: More people sending me money

Robert Weiner

© Copyright 2011 Online Payment Center, South House, Black Prince Road, US SE1 7SJ. . • Get the scoop on new stores, brands and features. Discover the benefits of safe and secure shopping from 100% trusted Stores, the last account you'll ever need, with satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

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It’s 2013: Where’s your nonprofit’s social media policy?

ASU Lodestar Center

Crediting other sources: As it is common practice on social media to re-post images and articles from other sources, we included links to copyright and Creative Commons instructions to better inform our employees on these legal restrictions and discussed some best-practices.