Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Getting some kind of licensing deal is critically important, because it will take many years for the Marrakesh Treaty to be fully implemented with its copyright exceptions. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! copyright exception. We could serve many more with a comparable international model. I’m excited to report: they did just that.

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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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. We can do better!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. The International Dyslexia Association calls these students “SEEDS kids,” for “struggling readers, English language learners, economically disadvantaged youth, dyslexia students and specific learning disability students.” There are some 7.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. When we received a grant from the Bernard Newcomb Foundation in 2007 to take Bookshare international, I asked Viji to become Bookshare’s International Program Coordinator.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 15, 2012

© Copyright 2011 Online Payment Center, South House, Black Prince Road, US SE1 7SJ. The language in this one is particularly twisted: Sender: Mr Sanusi Lamido (contact2011iniifo@yahoo.com.ph). international passport or driving license for identification. links lead to [link] A second version came from no-reply@stumblemail.com).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I learned a lot about how blind people deal with Chinese: I thought it would be a difficult language to make accessible. Right now, we're obtaining many permissions from publishers to serve an international audience, and we'll have some interesting options for blind and print disabled people in Hong Kong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. inappropriate language, pornography, and other questionable influences. from legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Lost productivity. From lost productivity.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

And thats exactly what Donordigital and Amnesty International USA did to compile this report. Thanks to both Donordigital and Amnesty International USA for sharing the full report. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result was an in-depth eleven page report. You can download the report here.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

And thats exactly what Donordigital and Amnesty International USA did to compile this report. Thanks to both Donordigital and Amnesty International USA for sharing the full report. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result was an in-depth eleven page report. You can download the report here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Answer : A copyright exception makes it much easier for people with print disabilities to get access to the materials they need for education, employment and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

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. Students do not have to be blind to qualify under the copyright exception. What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

We are an international volunteer community dedicated to amplifying citizen media from around the world. In the last six years, we’ve produced more than 75,000 posts that link to blogs and other citizen content for readers in over 20 languages. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

For years, international negotiations have been moving forward on what many have come to know as the " Treaty for the Blind." Early versions of the treaty embodied this principle, and in addition, would ease the international transfer of accessible books for people with disabilities. Congress to gut our model copyright exception.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This also includes developing an internal linking strategy. Avoid Copyright Infringement. In Google, you also have the option to filter out copyrighted images under the tools section. Creating your own images is a great way to grow your search traffic, build brand awareness, and protects against copyright laws.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 19, 2022

Don’t repeat negative or inflammatory language from the reporter. Even a denial using such language can be repeated as from you in the story. For more information, please visit [link] Excerpted from The Public Relations Handbook copyright © 2022 by Robert L. A corollary to that is to take the high road. Dilenschneider.

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