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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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DuckDuckGo insists it didn’t ‘purge’ piracy sites from search results

The Verge

Users of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo have been unable to site search the domains of some well-known pirated media sites recently, as reported by TorrentFreak on Friday. Anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results,” Weinberg tweeted. Image: DuckDuckGo.com.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. 99, the app is a must-download for mobile social media managers.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. It is a must download! USTREAM :: ustream.tv. Storify :: storify.com.

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Extra Crunch members get unlimited access to 12M stock images for $99 per year

TechCrunch

Full details on the Yay Images’ Partner Perk: Unlimited downloads across a collection of over 12 million images, 1.5 Advanced search and filters. 25,000 copyright protection per asset. million vectors and 250,000 HD/4K Videos. Unlimited team members with the Growth Plan. Dedicated account manager.

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