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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a library.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. I had never heard of it.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. We are in pretty good company.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. The organization is also creating DVD’s of some of the videos to send to prospective donors. Rosenberg says. .

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. The organization is also creating DVD’s of some of the videos to send to prospective donors. Rosenberg says. .

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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