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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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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When students with disabilities need books for school or simply want to read the same books as their peers without disabilities, they are likely to find that e-book in Bookshare and able to download it in the format of their choice to use at school, at home or elsewhere. What can be done today to build this accessible tomorrow?

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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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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The draft can be downloaded from WIPO. This draft can be downloaded from the DAISY Consortium.

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LACMA's Magritte Exhibition: This is not fair use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The anti remix message: The exhibition policy on photos: no photos are allowed in the exhibit. Yes, that's the problem with the fair use concept as currently expressed in the US copyright code, but that's another article altogether -- one that should be written by someone who does their legal research a lot better.

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Case Study in Collaboration: Youth Policy Action Center - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The Forum convened these groups and they agreed to work together to do what no single organization could do on their own - build a large online audience for action on youth policy. Its going to be a great year & we look forward to many youth policy wins! May 4, 2007 | Joem Copyright © 2008, Care2.com com , Inc.

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Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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January 27, 2010 | Denver SEO Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. I think many businesses want to embrace social, but are scared of making a mistake, and dont know how to monitor their results. Tools like these will really help the SMB to succeed with social. All rights reserved.