Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This historic international copyright exception treaty paves the way for a future in which people who cannot read regular printed materials can have equal access to books, regardless of where they live. It supports domestic human and civil rights laws around access to information and education. · It is politically popular.

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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. National organizations of the blind, as well as WBU, need to keep the pressure on publishers to build accessibility into their products. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.

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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. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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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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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

His well crafted aspirations remind us of the positive and amazing progress this nation can take on, even when we seem bent towards argument. The community operating system of VisionLink is built to enable the operational connections between needs and assets across our nation''s communities. Martin Luther King, Jr. I share this dream.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

His well crafted aspirations remind us of the positive and amazing progress this nation can take on, even when we seem bent towards argument. The community operating system of VisionLink is built to enable the operational connections between needs and assets across our nation''s communities. Martin Luther King, Jr. I share this dream.

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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. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. These approaches usually lock out people with disabilities. Why have public decision-making? What makes the ACTA an exception?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

Groups or individuals that advocate, support, or practice (or, in the sole discretion of Sponsor, are believed to advocate/support/practice) discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status are NOT eligible. Submission Restrictions. (a)

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

» Thursday Jul 06 2006 Care2 Petition Helps Prevent National Park Service Changes Thursday, July 6, 2006 at 02:41PM | by shannon The American people can send loud and clear messages to the government, and when they do, officials are often responsive. May 31, 2007 | Amien Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks for the info!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Groups or individuals that advocate, support or practice (or, in the sole discretion of Sponsor, are believed to advocate/support/practice) discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or socioeconomic status are NOT eligible. (b) b) Void Jurisdictions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws. Later, I went and looked over at blip.tv

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. A recent example of this was web site accessibility. The Textbook problem. The DMCA workaround.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. The fourth one is The Nations Missing Children, in Phoenix. I do find a link between the phone number and the National Center for Missing Adults. Most of them are very small. They reported $1.2

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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. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2010

In our arguments over the meaning of the Constitution, over presidential power and the rule of law we hear the sound of freedom. © Copyright 2010. In our arguments over gay rights and the balance between pro-choice and pro-life we hear the sound of freedom. Let freedom ring. Stan Stahl, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. -- Dr. W.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The ASU Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) is one of only 56 continuing education professional development programs in the nation. [2] Current nonprofit leaders say that because of the recent downturn in the local and national economy, there is increased competition for nonprofit positions.

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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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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2008

Most recently, at the Marine FishConservation Network (MFCN), Eric helped lead a coalition of 190organizations to successfully reauthorize the national law governingfishing in U.S. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Eric has morethan seven years experience with running integrated advocacy campaignsfor environmental nonprofits.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

Most recently, at the Marine FishConservation Network (MFCN), Eric helped lead a coalition of 190organizations to successfully reauthorize the national law governingfishing in U.S. Comments Off | by Share Article in Email Marketing , Online Advocacy , Online Fundraising Copyright © 2008, Care2.com ocean waters.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It’s your car watching your every move to make your travel safe and efficient; it’s cameras on traffic lights and road-bed sensors watching your car’s every move to see that it obeys the laws. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Also in the running and campaigning hard are (in alphabetical order) Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Citizens for Global Solutions, Faithful Security; Genocide Intervention Network; Global Green USA; National Religious Campaign Against Torture; and Women’s Action for New Directions. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

This article was written by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager for the National Womens Law Center. March 9, 2009 | Abigail Hirsch Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0 Have you experimented with Google AdWords? What tips do you have for optimizing your Google Grant?

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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

APRIL 18, 2007

Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. Tourism Campaigns or celebrate a place or county or state. Fundraising presentations. Can you find more?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

60) Search « Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 | Main | On Frogloops Radar » Wednesday Jan 28 2009 The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 10:51AM | by Robin Reed When the National Women’s Law Center first applied for a Google Grant ? All rights reserved.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Well organize local press events, face-to-face visits with members of Congress, and a national day of action to keep the heat on Congress and show how clean energy jobs can revive our communities.” unlike most other countries) there is no law which requires employers to allow their employees to earn paid sick days. In the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Professor Ruth Okediji, who keynoted the Uganda conference a couple of weeks earlier, is visiting Harvard Law School this year. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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