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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books. Love of the print book. We can do better!

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. It’s because our mission depends on a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation. copyright law.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. We don’t have to ask for permission from the publisher or author.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

Gyrus

Let us look at some of the top technology trends taking place in the training and Development Industry: Mobile Learning : According to e- Marketer, the number of smartphone users in the United States is estimated to reach 207.2 Technology has impacted almost every aspect of our lives and training & development is no exception.

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By Heather McLeod Grant, Monitor Institute (and co-author of Forces for Good). is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Just last week we published a new case study of KaBOOM!

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Does one size really fit all online?

Connection Cafe

Author: Amber Wobschall. Basically, people are looking at content in XS, S, M, L and XL screens. Basically, people are looking at content in XS, S, M, L and XL screens. And all these devices are better suited for some kinds of content than others. Which systems are driving the traffic you see? Need convincing?

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