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. There is still much to do, however, before the treaty takes full effect. It is politically popular.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access. Followers of Museum 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

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' We hope you’ll join us on this journey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 29, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Through this three-year project—made possible with support from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind as well as India’s adoption of a new copyright exception for people with print disabilities —we will pilot Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

His newest project is Open Source Cinema. Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. This film is open source - and thats why I created. Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words. Brett Gaylor is a amazing!

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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. Disability advocates should, at minimum, press for a seat at the ACTA table.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 11, 2011

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern, javascript enabled, browser. (ex: This one is kind of funny. Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence.

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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. Be open to negotiating on the US-JR if it’s stipulated that it is a step on the road to a treaty (a “yes-and” strategy).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Here’s a glimpse at what we’re delivering: Open-content, publicly available and freely shared image descriptions and reusable graphical models to improve accessibility of NIMAC textbooks and Common Core content (this is so cool, I'm going to write another blog just on this aspect: look for the Triple Play blog!) In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. or Why Not?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). I write a fair bit of science fiction, and also write other stuff. I’m talking in this post about self-publishing eBooks.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management). You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.”

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Check into copyright issues and get permission if you are selling tickets. Virtual Tour or Open House: Virtual tours were gaining in popularity before the pandemic hit. Now is a perfect time to host an open house, showing all the areas where you need help and explaining why you need funds.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Announcements of member openings are also permitted. However, we will not tolerate the following: aggressive or personal criticism of the blogger, breach of copyright, obscene, defamatory, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or likewise objectionable comments. All other job announcements are to be posted elsewhere.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

It is hoped this bot can remove some of the stigma associated with making a formal complaint – and lead to a safer, more open environment for all employees. Robot lawyers probably won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or write elegant legal briefs just yet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Although our efforts on RtF are mainly around serving people with disabilities, we are open to thinking more broadly about how these technologies could benefit more people. This is unlike Bookshare, which is for the 1-2% of the population who qualifies for the copyright exemption. I ran into a Stanford MBA student at TED, Joy Sun.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Below and at this link is information on the position: *POSITION OPEN* POSITION: New Media Manager PURPOSE: Responsible for developing and executing new media strategies to support the Foundation’s organizational as well as internal and external communications goals and objectives. Kellogg Foundation The W.K. This is a newly created position.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 15, 2012

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. View more presentations from kanter.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Frogloop: What is Open? If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I gave the opening keynote, on my main new theme, Raising the Floor. I spread the word that Bookshare.org is now available to people outside the United States, albeit with only 3,000 copyrighted books today instead of 35,000, because we need to get permission from publishers and authors to share their books outside the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

I carry with me a deck of "check-in" cards which I use as a practice to open meetings with staff, board members, and volunteers. Practices also useful when sorting through challenging and complex issues include asking open-ended questions , taking notes , and repeating/confirming what you heard others say. I will keep you posted!

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. 18 Oct 2007 facebook » Convio Open – Why the Convio Facebook Application blows away Causes [.] I will write more about the API later, but everyone is really there to see the Facebook opportunity. That’s the application name they add.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for open source screen readers. A couple of days later I had breakfast with my host, Professor Sena, and we talked in depth about the need for copyright changes in India, a cause he had been championing for years. And, there was a cow or two on my sojourn!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Challenge submission opens August 29, 2016 at 8:00:01 a.m. The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. Youth trying to learn new art mediums, they often incorrectly use copyrighted works.they create a derivative work.a

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Bookshare started as the sharing of copyrighted and public domain books in a central repository authorized by the Chafee Amendment by people with print disabilities for their own use. It’s like every library I’ve ever worked in, as it should be. All of this makes me think back to what I’ve learned about the creation of Bookshare. at its core.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

All of this work helps us support the international effort for full implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty —a global copyright exception model that provides the legal framework for greater sharing of accessible books across national borders. I invite you to join us as we open new frontiers at the intersection of technology and social change.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. We chatted about the sad decline in international newspaper correspondents , but Roger suggested that this downturn could open new possibilities for nonprofits. TechSoup's Carlos Bergfeld was there too, as well as TechSoup forum host Robert Weiner.

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