Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 22, 2009
Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. Every year, the American Library Association picks a different theme for the occasion. This year’s theme was “Worlds connect @ your library.” Bookshare is a unique library. at its core.
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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. •
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
When Bookshare was first created, we conceived of the concept of a digital library built by the people who use the library, instead of solely by librarians deciding what people with print disabilities should read. Tags: volunteer blind library Lyons Bookshare. Using a provision of U.S. Bookshare Volunteers are the best!
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).
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. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 7, 2010
If we see an error in a book, we can't break the copyright by correcting our digital version. A note about Bookshare Bookshare , the world’s largest accessible online library, serves more than 100,000 readers with visual impairments, and physical or learning disabilities. This drives us crazy. students thanks to support from the U.S.
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