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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

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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!

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World Economic Forum - Davos 2007

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I'm en route to Switzerland for two conferences (or, a pre-conference and a conference). I very much enjoy blogging from Switzerland, and sharing my experiences. It's that time of year when social entrepreneurs get to hang out and carouse with the world's leaders. The first event is the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit.

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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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Saturday in Davos means protesters

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His direct concern was about corrupt elites that stash their ill-gotten gains in Switzerland. Uli was protesting against the Swiss banks taking five times more money in from the developing world than it puts back out. We had quite a pleasant chat. Of course, not all of the interactions were pleasant.

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Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI)

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when the Schwab Foundation allowed me to bring him along to their Social Entrepreneur Summit in Switzerland. Long term readers of the Beneblog might remember Jimmy's post from Davos last year, (the most popular Beneblog post I ever or never wrote!)

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First day in Davos

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And then we're in a small ski village in Switzerland! The journey itself is magical: you take a series of trains getting ever smaller, until the final hour meanders through the middle of mountain villages with a foot to spare on either side of the train, through tunnels and beneath spectacular mountains.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland is currently debating a global treaty to help the blind. I was honored to be part of a WBU-convened expert team that authored the original draft of the treaty.