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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
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. Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it.
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FEBRUARY 3, 2016
That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.
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JANUARY 5, 2015
One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.
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JUNE 16, 2011
Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Canada, Europe and India. We think this exception has worked extraordinarily well in the U.S.:
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 7, 2013
have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Works Covered.
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