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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. with a legally qualifying print disability per the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act. million students (15% of the U.S. There are some 7.5

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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Tip: Make sure to discuss your proposed policy with a cross section of staff as. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. Lost productivity. From spyware.

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Delhi University

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Lord Mountbatten proposed to his wife in that building and was later the Chancellor of the University as the UK's last Viceroy to India. As a university with a strong commitment to serving students with vision impairments (having over XXX such students), the U is very interested in participating with Bookshare.org.in.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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