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JUNE 13, 2011

He’s a principal at Adler & Colvin, San Francisco's top law firm specializing in nonprofit law. Rob is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. Rob has a deep understanding of what makes nonprofits successful.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Elaine is a seasoned attorney with extensive experience advising clients on intellectual property, internet law, privacy, licensing, litigation and informal dispute resolution. She spent more than 15 years at major international law firms, including Jones Day and Dechert LLP.

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JUNE 24, 2010

and as far as I know, most of the other exceptions) law, there is no approval or authorization by other entities, whether government, publishing industry or the disability consumer organizations. Compare that to the fair use exception, which has plenty of case law. As long as we obey the law, they are unlikely to sue us.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Finally, we’re grateful to the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation for matching us with pro bono attorneys who drafted a very impressive agreement tailored to Spanish law concerning serving individuals with print disabilities. Special thanks go to Charles Coward and Xavier Domènech of the Barcelona law firm Uría Menéndez.

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JUNE 22, 2013

Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. This is already apparent in IDEA 2004, the most recent reauthorization of national special education law. In some markets, printed books are receding into the past.

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MARCH 3, 2016

The creation of Bookshare was made possible because of an enlightened copyright law exception. law with the Treaty language. And, that American copyright exception was the inspiration for the Marrakesh Treaty!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. A professional with expertise in assessing disabilities needs to certify each Bookshare member as meeting these qualifications (the copyright law in the U.S. Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology.

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JUNE 8, 2010

It is narrower than the Treaty, and is not binding as a treaty would be (some call it “soft law” compared to the “hard law” of a treaty). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now). and European privacy laws, and so on. • law today. • What would I work on?

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

It supports domestic human and civil rights laws around access to information and education. · . · It is the primary successful example of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda, and will lay the groundwork for more advances in the Development Agenda. · It is politically popular.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. We have built Bookshare International upon three principles.

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MARCH 1, 2012

This landmark federal law, known as the “Emancipation Proclamation for people with disabilities,” has been remarkably successful in protecting the rights of people with disabilities. The ADA and the special education laws have produced the best-educated population of people with disabilities in U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The law that Congress passed that directed the creation of the Commission has quite a number of issues we're supposed to work on, including definitions of qualifying students and instructional materials as well as considering what systems might be established to help accessibility be better delivered.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws. Unfortunately, we can’t export these books, as other countries have copyright laws that we wouldn’t violate. This includes the kind of legal advocacy pursued by the National Federation of the Blind in the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

However, we have yet to come to grips with what is ethical and what the laws should be in relation to rapidly changing technologies. This post originally appeared on the blog of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'' (IEEE) Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The other half of the day they go to university pursuing advanced studies in numerous different fields (I asked a bunch of the students their area of study and heard answers like business, law, accountancy and even forestry). We scan the books in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

civil rights laws succeeds, people with disabilities will be yet again be denied equality.' That''s why we''re happy to stand in solidarity with NFB and our peers in the disability and accessibility worlds. If this attempt by Amazon and their peers to weasel out of accessibility requirements built into U.S.

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JUNE 24, 2008

He's best known with Moore's Law, the exponential growth projection that implies that computers get faster and cheaper at ever-amazing rates. I know he's tired of all of the Moore's law hoopla, though.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

We’ve learned that there’s immense power in showing up in Washington with new ideas based on actual performance in the field—and that Washington is no less technical than Silicon Valley; the difference lies in what the famous scholar and activist Larry Lessig describes as “East Coast code” (laws) vs. “West Coast code” (software).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The moderator was Stephan Sonnenberg , Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at the Stanford Law School. Our panel featured Enrique Piracés , Benetech Vice President of Human Rights, Iain Levine , Human Rights Watch Deputy Executive Director, and Sam Gregory , WITNESS Program Director.

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JUNE 23, 2010

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. One of the biggest reasons is that among people who are blind, braille literacy has been linked with higher education levels, higher likelihood of employment and higher income. Accordingly, U.S.

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MARCH 1, 2016

What laws they violate. With access to the information collected by a person’s smartphone, it’s probably straightforward to figure out everything important about that person. Who they love. What religion they profess. Their ethnicity. What drugs (legal or illegal) they consume. What content they read or watch. Every secret. Not just the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

copyright law, our volunteers scanned the books they wanted to read and then were able to upload them to Bookshare so that others could enjoy these books as well. Using a provision of U.S.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

copyright law. Instead of deciding what people with disabilities should read, we let our users decide which books to scan and share with each other under an exception in the U.S. Instead of people without disabilities helping people with disabilities, most of our books came from people with disabilities helping each other!

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JUNE 8, 2009

law that made it legal for us to scan just a bout any book without needing to get permissions first. I was part of an expert panel that drafted the original proposed treaty. Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment. The interests that sponsor provisions like those mooted about the secret ACTA provisions, tend to be anti-innovation, with strong focus on control.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Conclusion The language a few publishers and other intellectual property lobbyists are pushing for in the laws being devised to implement the Treaty—including the “if you can buy a book, you can’t borrow it” concept—could mean the end to libraries as we know them.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2007

This runs so counter to the normal overreaching of trademark and copyright owners, like the NFL's attempt to stop a law professor from posting the snippet from the Super Bowl showing how ridiculous their copy right claims were as explained on Techdirt: DMCA Takedown For Professor Showing How Copyright Owners Exaggerate Their Rights.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Together, these facts should be helpful for educational institutions and their legal counsel in permitting institutions to avail themselves of the services funded by the Department of Education, and to be comfortable with the legality of those services under copyright law.

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DECEMBER 19, 2006

He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books. Visually impaired his entire life, he was a tireless advocate for the blind and visually impaired as well as a shining role model.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The dedication of my colleagues to find facts about human rights violations that can stand up in both the court of law and peer-reviewed academic journals has inspired me to make statistical analysis for the greater good my life pursuit.

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JUNE 13, 2016

His “Law of Amplification” was particularly insightful: “technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.” Of course, from my long experience in the field, I didn’t find Toyama’s choice of targets all that surprising. A short-hand for this might be that technology is most useful in the hands of people who are ready to use it.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In 2001, its 40th anniversary year, AI expanded its mandate considerably to incorporate economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the body of international law governing armed conflict, thus committing itself to advance all human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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JANUARY 20, 2005

has just passed a law mandating this standard in education for students with disability. The law includes setting up a repository for publishers to deposit textbooks in electronic form. I spent the last two days at the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard meetings: the U.S.

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