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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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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. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He My idea was completely legal!

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Bookshare and the Power of We

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Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. The Bookshare breakthrough was to put our users in charge of the collection; we created a crowd-sourced library built by and for the people it serves. copyright law.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S. award Fruchterman a11y Migel AFB Ferrell Bookshare accessibility blind copyright dyslexia Helen Keller copyfight SCCR treaty ebooks'

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story! Share your story. The 2016 TechSoup Symantec Success Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Visit the Success Stories landing page at [link] to enter your submission. (a) b) Story Submission. A submission form must be submitted for each story submission.

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

Tech Soup

If you want to give nonprofits and other noncommercial ventures permission to republish your story, but don't want to allow a company to sell it for profit, there's a license for that. Creative Commons-licensed content is also a great resource for you when you're creating a digital story. Your Questions.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

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Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. Participants advised understanding your audience and sharing the stories behind your program stats to make an impact. Origin stories describe the journey of how an organization came to be.