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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

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The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. So, the publishers weren’t against all licensing.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

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Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. Everything is negotiable under license, except in practice, they don’t want to negotiate about access -- because there’s not enough money involved. Do I work on this $50 million licensing deal on a short deadline? Except, that’s the status quo. Because of money.

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Bookshare to Convert Open Content Textbooks to Accessible Formats

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Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable. We've been big fans of OERs and CC licensing, and it seems like the field is on the brink of really going to scale. We also can (and do) make them freely available on our website.

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Caltech: Founding Values

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It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy! But, allow the benefits of technology to reach far beyond the top of the pyramid.

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My Davos remarks on IP

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Nike launched the GreenXchange , and the Young Global Leaders had a humanitarian patent licensing concept that seemed promising. So, a key action to improve this market failure problem is to be open to licensing technology to social entrepreneurs. My main talk was at a session on commercialization of university research.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

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We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs.