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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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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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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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Just Joined a New Federal Commission!

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I recently was sworn in by Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter as one of nineteen people serving on the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities. Opportunity to higher education is a crucial need for all students, and especially students with disabilities.

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Austria conference on access technology

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It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer. talking about their research. And that's just two examples.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

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students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. 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.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

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But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students.

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