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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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SOPA Strike: 12 Hour Internet Blackout on Jan. 18th To Call Attention to US Bill That Threatens Open Internet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike. Our content is free to use, and free to share.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The most typical means of accessibility is to use software that reads the digital text aloud in a computer-synthesized voice. 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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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

Nonprofits Source

Avoid Copyright Infringement. In Google, you also have the option to filter out copyrighted images under the tools section. But the English language is complex and basic word processing tools don’t understand the use of passive voice or complex sentence structures. In terms of style, I like to keep things simple.

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