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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

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In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

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We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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

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Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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