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JUNE 28, 2013

To the Diplomatic Conference in Plenary on June 27, 2013 On the Adoption of the Treaty of Marrakech This is an excellent Treaty. The Benetech team is delighted by its adoption today.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!) Benetech announced this commitment at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. As part of this project, we are working with our lead Indian partner, the DAISY Forum of India, as well as other Indian disability organizations.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Delivering my statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary, August 2013 We’ve since learned many lessons about the multiplier effect of advocacy. Instead, our biggest challenge was convincing them that our approach was the best approach for meeting those needs.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. delegation signing the treaty.

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JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

But doing the same thing in 2017, or even in 2013, isn’t an option if we want to best serve our users and increase our impact in a changing world. Looking Ahead In October, we began another five year project with OSEP to keep offering free Bookshare services to students.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Interestingly enough, our 2013 budget projection for the Martus project is larger than the combined group was in 2012. Our goal is to empower human rights and social justice groups to leverage their information assets for maximum impact: For current and near-term advocacy and for larger scale truth telling when the time is right.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

First we identified the titles we wanted to add—all requested by Bookshare non-student members, including some of the best science books of 2013 as reported by NPR’s Science Friday show. We decided to create the James Franklin In Memoriam collection, with a focus on science and technology books written for the lay audience.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The session was pretty successful, in that the Committee called for an extraordinary general assembly meeting in December with the aim of calling a diplomatic conference to finalize the Treaty for the Visually Impaired in June 2013. The rest of this post looks at this draft treaty in its current form.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? family structure? employment attachment and educational level of adult household members? In cross-national perspective: How do these outcomes in Uruguay compare with those in 50 other middle- and high-income countries (including several in Latin America)?

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JANUARY 5, 2016

This breakthrough instrument was negotiated in 2013 and has now been signed by over eighty countries. But, to make that happen, we need to recreate the favorable copyright policy environment we enjoy in the United States. And so we campaigned for the Marrakesh Treaty. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.

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