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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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Lame spams of the day: messages from key.com

Robert Weiner

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.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DAISY Audio and MP3 formats offer Bookshare members more choices to read on the go In this case, we upgraded the Bookshare website to allow direct downloads of accessible MP3 files for a small number of Bookshare ebooks. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Delivering Bestsellers to the Bookshare Community

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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