Copyright Download Files 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read. Or file a DMCA notice. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 29, 2011
We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! 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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 30, 2013
You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” Fingerprinting – Embedding the user's name in plaintext in the downloaded ebook file and hiding the user ID information invisibly inside the main body of the book.
Robert Weiner
MARCH 29, 2013
The attached file contains the encrypted message that you have received. To read the encrypted message, complete the following steps: - Double-click the encrypted message file attachment to download the file to your computer. Select whether to open the file or save it to your hard drive. . All Rights Reserved.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 7, 2010
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 8, 2011
We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read. Or file a DMCA notice. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
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