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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities. For me, it started in late 1999 noticing a new icon on our home PC.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.
Tech Soup
JUNE 4, 2012
demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. Our Local Impact Map.
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