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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. She was told that a brain tumor was pressing on her optic nerve and may cause her to become blind. Since Viji was raised in India, she began looking at the educational challenges faced by people from that country.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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