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By Marc Beja August 19, 2009 via The Chronicle of Higher Education While music-recording companies have been fighting people who illegally share songs, book publishers are looking to expand file-sharing for college students with print-related disabilities...
Filed under: print disabilities, college students, accessible textbooks, DSS, beta version, online database, AccessText, file sharing, Association of American Publishers, alternate formats, Disabled Students Services Offices
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New York, Jul 14 2009 1:10PM via US News Centre Speeding up access to copyright-related material can benefit over 160 million blind or visually impaired people around the world, participants at a United Nations-backed intellectual property gathering have...
Filed under: blind, print disabilities, altered balance, intellectual property, Visually Impaired Initiative, web site launching, proliferation of digital technologies, United Nations, expanding access, General Francis Gurry, World Intellectual Property Organization, VIP, copyright protection systems, copyrighted materials
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By Eric Engleman May 20, 2009 via TechFlash Amazon Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature, which reads electronic books aloud, is sparking more heated words. Amazon, if you recall, said it would allow authors and publishers to switch off text-to-speech...
Filed under: National Federation of the Blind, blind, print disabilities, visually impaired, Kindle 2, 15 million print-disabled Americans, discriminatory, copyright concerns, authors' guild, Reading Rights Coalition, disabling text to speech, read aloud feature, text to speech feature, Random House, equal access to books
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via abledbody April 29, 2009, 10:07 am Bookshare, the online library for people with print disabilities, today announced a new program that will significantly increase college students' access to digital books and textbooks. The Bookshare University...
Filed under: blind, print disabilities, people with disabilities, BookShare, K-12, Chafee Amendment, digital books, visually impaired, HarperCollins, Jim Fruchterman, copyright exemption, online library, Hachette Book Group, college students, Benetech, pool resources, post-secondary students, digital textbooks, equal educational experience, Scholastic, cost-effective approach for schools
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via District Dispatch April 28th, 2009 The American Library Association (ALA), the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) jointly submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office today on...
Filed under: blind, print disabilities, accessible formats, IDEA, same access as people who can see, encourage technologic innovations, misinterpretation about user rights in connection with text-to-speech, professional resources, ACRL, Association for Research Libraries, ARL, needs of visually impaired in foreign countries, fair use, comments, complex process, harmonize eligibility requirements, contract law, growing demographic of people losing sight in later years, local history materials, facilitating access to copyrighted works, NLS, copyright exceptions, Chaffee Amendment, Association for College and Research Libraries, Access for visually impaired readers, scholarly journals, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, American Library Association, research materials, ALA, U.S. Copyright Office, limit confusion between laws
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ReadHowYouWant (RHYW), a Sydney, Australia-based company that reformats books for people who are blind and visually impaired, has opened its online bookshop featuring accessible formats including 24 pt. large print, DAISY (Digital Accessible Information...
Filed under: Humanware, braille, BrailleNote, books in alternate formats, MyReader, ClassMate, Victor Reader Stream, Frankfurt Book Fair, print disabilities, accessible formats, assistive technology, 24 pt. Large print, CSUN, Free Chapter Download Program, London Book Fair, Book Expo America, DAISY, ReadHowYouWant, ATIA
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