Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 24, 2010
and similar copyright exceptions as a starting point. exception, Section 121, posted at Bookshare as the Chafee Amendment, the term is "authorized entities." But, the burden of proof is not on the nonprofit agency, it's on the copyright holder making the complaint. The concept of TIs uses U.S. In the U.S. And, the U.S.
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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
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! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. I was honored to be part of a WBU-convened expert team that authored the original draft of the treaty. thanks to our domestic copyright exception.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 15, 2009
Mauer does a great job in capturing the advocacy position of the Reading Rights Coalition. The Authors Guild are pressing the cause of authors' rights to make more money (in theory). And, the Authors Guild is suffering because the NFB and Reading Rights Coalition has done a great job of articulating the differences.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries. What’s next?
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