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Claude Almansi

Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books - MobileRead Forums - Alexander ... - 0 views

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    As some of you may already know, this week we received a DMCA take-down notice from Amazon requesting the removal of the tool kindlepid.py and instructions associated with it. Although we never hosted this tool (contrary to their claim), nor believe that this tool is used to remove technological measures (contrary to their claim), we decided, due to the vagueness of the DMCA law and our intention to remain in good relation with Amazon, to voluntarily follow their request and remove links and detailed instructions related to it.
Claude Almansi

Music lessons | theBookseller.com -Tom Tivnan (about Kindle being proprietary) - 0 views

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    Closely aligned to the DRM issue is that there are a multiplicity of e-book formats, many of which cannot be read on other devices. As with DRM, consumer frustration is bound to arise if readers have to jump through hoops to read legally purchased books. This is perhaps not a problem at the moment, when the bulk of e-reader owners are early adopters, yet it will become more acute when the devices are more widely disseminated among less tech-savvy users. As Kassia Krozser, co-founder of medialoper.com who writes widely on digital entertainment issues, blogs on her publishing site Booksquare.com: "DRM, as implemented now, does not deter piracy. It does deter reading." She later reminds publishers that "your customers (again: the ones who give you money) don't read on one device, on one operating system, in one location. As you move forward with your digital initiatives, think about how real people read books."
Claude Almansi

NFB - National Federation of the Blind Responds to Authors Guild Statement on the Amazo... - 0 views

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    Same as in Forbes' but on the NFB site with contact info
Claude Almansi

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society: The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1) [Kindle... - 0 views

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    This isn't a new issue. George Kerscher and I wrote a major essay on the topic seven(!) years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it's a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! More on that in another essay. The essence of the Soundproof Book essay was the dueling moral high grounds: author's rights vs. the right to access. Since these are both generally good from society's standpoint, how do you handle the conflict between them?
Claude Almansi

DAISY: National Federation of the Blind Responds to Authors Guild Statement on the Amaz... - 0 views

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    The blind and other readers have the right for books to be presented to us in the format that is most useful to us, and we are not violating copyright law as long as we use readers, either human or machine, for private rather than public listening. The key point is that reading aloud in private is the same whether done by a person or a machine, and reading aloud in private is never an infringement of copyright. Amazon has taken a step in the right direction by including text-to-speech technology for reading e-books aloud on its new Kindle 2". More details are available on the Forbes website.
Claude Almansi

The Authors Guild - 2/25/09 - Kindle 2 Audio: How Does It Sound? - 0 views

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    Listening to the examples demonstrates that nobody non-blind and non-masochistic would use the Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature. And as blind people can't use the Kindle 2, what is the point of that feature - and of the Authors' Guild ruckus about it?
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    February 25, 2009. Text-to-speech (TTS) programs have been in use for a number of years, and they're improving. As Roy Blount says in an op-ed in today's New York Times, Kindle 2's TTS isn't Jim Dale reading "Harry Potter," but it's listenable. There's no need to take our word for it; have a listen to the sample below.
Claude Almansi

Differences & Repetitions: "Kindle & the Labor of Reading" Worksite v. 2.0 - Ted Striph... - 0 views

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    What's really at stake with Kindle is Amazon's desire to re-invent itself as a company where the buying and selling of retail goods is not an end in itself but also a means by which to obtain valuable client data. In a more abstract sense, Amazon.com is actively producing laboring subjects in and around an everyday practice-the reading of books and periodicals-which to my knowledge has never shared as direct a relationship to economically productive activity as it does with Kindle.
Claude Almansi

Fair Use & Copyright: -- Center for Social Media at American University - 0 views

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    Fair use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. Fair use enables the creation of new culture, and keeps current copyright holders from being private censors. With the Washington College of Law, the Center for Social Media creates tools for creators, teachers, and researchers to better use their fair use rights. Explore your fair use rights by clicking on one of the tabs above.
Claude Almansi

Creative Commons wins the 2008 Free Software Foundation Award for Project of Social Ben... - 0 views

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    Creative Commons vice president Mike Linksvayer accepted the award saying, "It's an incredible honor. Creative Commons should be giving an award to the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman, because what Creative Commons is doing would not be possible without them."
Claude Almansi

100 Millionen freie Bilder bei Flickr - Metawelle, March 22 09 - 0 views

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    Am 29 Juni 2004 gab Flickr bekannt, dass jeder der möchte, seine Fotos bei Flickr mit einer Creative Commons Lizenz ausstatten kann. Innerhalb des ersten Jahres wurden bereits 10 Millionen Fotos mithilfe der sechs zur Verfügung stehenden Lizenzmodule veröffentlicht. Nun, im fünften Jahr nach Beginn der Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem kanadischen Fotohosting-Dienst und der gemeinnützigen Organisation Creative Commons, befinden sich bereits 100 Millionen Fotos in der riesigen Datenbank.
Claude Almansi

Labs CC: Flickr: Creative Commons (stats) - 0 views

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    Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
Claude Almansi

Wietse Venema and Creative Commons announced as winners of the annual free software awa... - 0 views

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    Software Foundation (FSF) announced the winners of the annual free software awards during the GNU/Linux conference LibrePlanet, held on March 21-22 at Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, MA. Creative Commons was honored with the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, and Wietse Venema was honored with the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Presenting the awards was FSF founder and president Richard Stallman.
Claude Almansi

Knowledge Ecology Notes » Who should benefit from a WIPO Treaty for Reading D... - 0 views

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    This note discusses the issue of who should benefit from a WIPO treaty for reading disabled persons. Should it only be people who are blind and visually impaired, as some propose, or should it be more inclusive with regard to other disabilities?
Claude Almansi

Camera Obscura (accessibility for the blind) - 0 views

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    Welcome to Camera Obscura, the womb without a view http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blind.html ... (skip to detailed site map)
Claude Almansi

OneWEB.tv » Five Questions With Dennis Lembrée - Creator of Accessible Twitter - 0 views

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    Twitter has changed from being a tool most people thought is simply yet another way for people on the Internet to waste time to a platform for social change, social networking and dare I say it even business. One of the aspects that Twitter has been lacking is an accessible interface to the service. Thankfully Dennis Lembrée is changing all this. Schalk Neethling sat down with Dennis to learn more about Accessible Twitter, the problems he faces in creating it and what the future will hold.
Claude Almansi

Accessible Twitter - 0 views

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    Items Implemented * All links are keyboard accessible. * Simple, consistent layout and navigation. * Works with or without JavaScript. * Large default text size and high color contrast. * Looks great in high or low resolution. * Forms are marked up for optimal accessibility. * Code is semantic, light, and adheres to best practices in Web Standards.
David Corking

[Grassroots-l] [support-gang] Change the World (FAST!) - 0 views

  • > He needed (would still appreciate it) 30 XOs for one primary school class, > calculated everything using prices from G1G1. This is a good example, thank you... I will follow up off list; but you are right, this is the sort of project we are not supporting outside of G1G1.
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      OLPC is too much interested in bulk orders from countries to be a serious force in democratising education.
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    By not supporting medium-sized deployments of, say 30 to 5000 laptops (a typical order from a school or an educational authority) the OLPC Foundation betrays an instinct for paternalism. We have too much paternalism in education already, and the technologies in Sugar were designed to give children democratic access to education.
Claude Almansi

[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses - Aug. 1, 08 - 0 views

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    So, you build on a BY-NC work and register your copyright. You license your new work also BY-NC. Someone violates the copyright on your work. You sue. You are entitled to statutory damages right? You collect. Are you now guiilty of violating the NC licneses of the works yours built upon?
Claude Almansi

Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education | Media Education Lab |... - 0 views

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    The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills. Check out these exciting additional resources:
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