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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S. During the meeting in Geneva, there was worrisome rhetoric coming from the advocacy community, like the Boing Boing post USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material.

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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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Lame spam of the day: Instant Acrobat Upgrade

Robert Weiner

It lists an Adobe office in Canada, whereas the company is based in California. Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. The update site is instant-acrobat-upgrade.com, not adobe.com. The sender's address is @newsletter.northerntool.com. No company logo in the message (easy to fake, but many spammers don't bother). I got two copies.

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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Optimistic about Marrakesh Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In North America, Canada was rated as “probable” and the USA as a “possible.” Of course, Mexico might well beat both the USA and Canada, but Mexico is in the Latin America group at WBU. Additionally, we have over 200,000 copyrighted accessible book titles already available in most countries in the world.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

Toronto, Canada: TechSoup Canada was joined by North York Community for their portion of the tweet chat. Peterborough, Canada: TechSoup Canada continued the chat with GreenIT to look at the challenges of digital storytelling for small organizations, particularly those far from resource-laden metro areas.