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My remarks just made at WIPO today

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with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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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. Allowances for import and export of such material between countries by people or organizations. •

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » YouTube Snubs Major Jewish Organization

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Regrettably, your organization was not selected. They encourage all 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations to apply and fill out an application, but I couldn’t find on their site anything that said how they determined who gets in. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. issue as they see it.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Just Arrived in New Orleans

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It is great to be out of the still freezing Chicago and I am looking forward to meeting with many of the 1,200+ folks who have come to talk about what technology can do for nonprofit organizations. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » MoveOn To Video

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I get their emails — like I do with many other organizations — so I can see what they’re up to and learn from a variety of techniques about best practices in online advocacy and fundraising. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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