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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

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copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

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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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AI for Social Media: Supercharge Your Copy, Images & Videos

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For example: I want you to act as an average college student in the Midwest. There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. Here are a few use cases we’ve seen (and used ourselves): Brainstorming content topics. What are some environmental issues that are relevant to you? Copyediting.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Well report the overall scores in a future blog post. 3-4 — Sector Student - Arent we all? Nice quiz!

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

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You may already know that I plan in earnest to provide my personal President’s Updates as quarterly informal reports, but that all too often I fall behind on this well-intended schedule—as is the case with the update you’re reading now! students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work. Bush, Ph.D.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. shows a substantial increase in unrelated business income reported by nonprofits through much of the 1990s.