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

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The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. It was a magical hour.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. We share Creative Commons' belief in the free flow of information.

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Advancing Reading Equality with Bookshare’s Exponential Growth

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I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. Bookshare titles range from vocational to research to teacher-recommended reading. The majority of our members are U.S.

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Delivering Bestsellers to the Bookshare Community

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The machine uses OCR (optical character recognition) technology to convert the text to a digital exact image file and to a second file format that we use for direct editing. Once we sort out who is proofreading what, Carrie transfers the books to the main server where the files are kept forevermore.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Social Misfits Media and Aegis Media in the UK have just launched a new free online social media guide for charities to help relieve our perplexity. It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). Free Cloud Storage. No wonder we’re confused!

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

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The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. The most typical means of accessibility is to use software that reads the digital text aloud in a computer-synthesized voice. More than half of U.S.

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