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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. 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. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I had never heard of it.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. My hope is that publishers will decide to take the locks off their ebooks, like the makers of digital software and of digital music. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.

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Bring a Question: Creative Commons Hosts TechSoup Social Channels on September 17, 2014

Tech Soup

For example, if you're looking for music, artwork, or other content that you can freely remix, republish, and reuse as part of your digital story, there's a Creative Commons license for that, too. How can we use memes while still respecting copyright and making sure content creators get appropriate credit? Your Questions.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities. Roughly 1–2 per cent of students in the United States meet these requirements.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. follow up here ) A pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr , the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0 Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections. Launched in Jan.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. In addition to text quotes, Quoto also has a digital library of quotes embedded on images. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. Quoto :: quoto.com.

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