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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

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Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. Globalization and the digital transformation of the book industry also stand behind the recent big news in the publishing world about the mega-merger of Penguin and Random House , says Ed Nawotka.

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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

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We've been supportive of an effort by the World Blind Union to get an international treaty in place that sets up a global system much like the one we have today in the United States. law that made it legal for us to scan just a bout any book without needing to get permissions first.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. The Reading Rights Coalition is fighting against being locked out of these books by DRM, what is often called soundproofing the book after the paper George Kerscher and I wrote years ago.

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Breakthrough on Global Access at WIPO in Geneva!

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Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., Question: How would this help people with print disabilities globally? the European Union and others. Question: What are the two key points of the document?

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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