Authoring Copyright Government India 
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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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JANUARY 7, 2013
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AUGUST 7, 2013
The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works.
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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! Canada, Europe and India. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.
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MAY 27, 2015
Moreover, the UK, which is generally pro-Treaty, has political reasons to not bow to EU authority at this time. While the meeting was going on, we heard that Spain’s government had forwarded the treaty to their parliament for ratification. Let’s hope the USA does ratify this year (I'm certainly part of that effort)!
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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.
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OCTOBER 22, 2010
Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. Since Viji was raised in India, she began looking at the educational challenges faced by people from that country. Other Indian publishers and authors are also coming forward to offer their titles.
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