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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.”

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Congressional Testimony Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In my prepared statement, I explained why well-balanced intellectual property laws inspire technology innovation and social good, and described how our Bookshare initiative models the good that copyright exceptions can create. To make this possible, we must keep the balance in copyright. We call this building the last “social mile.”

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

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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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. They don’t like being told that the ebooks they purchase can only be read on certain devices or in certain software programs. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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What to Do When Technology Isn’t Your Problem

Robert Weiner

Copyright P. It’s free, and that’s all we can afford. Are you trying to solve a lack of strategy or broken processes by throwing software at the problem? Mueller [link]. Does it feel like you never find the right combination of technologies to just make things work? We should get the __est thing. Drop everything.

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Can I Use That Image for My Website or Newsletter?

Tech Soup

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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