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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. Our partners are responsible for verifying and maintaining records of each member’s proof of disability – a process that is best done with local knowledge.

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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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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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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Vjii now works with organizations in Canada and the United Kingdom as well as in India, where Bookshare employs four people to scan and upload books. In underdeveloped countries, the biggest problem we face is that copyright issues have not been addressed by government in the local area," Viji told the magazine. "In

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

and Canada (who do not live in the U.S. and makes no representation or warranty that the Sweepstakes is in compliance with your local law. It is your sole responsibility to review local laws to determine whether the Sweepstakes is lawful in your country. Important warning for persons outside the U.S. Submission Restrictions. (a)

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

If you’re like me and particularly like services that offer a Dropbox style local folder on your device which is mirrored in the cloud, those include: MediaFire , Copy.com , Google Drive , and Microsoft SkyDrive. Like my colleague Jane Zhang at TechSoup Canada , I pegged the Internet of Things (IoT) as something to watch this year.

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Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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It is endemic only to the unique temperate rainforest region off the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. These white phased bears are known locally as "spirit bears." Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Biologists estimate a population of 1,200 kermode bears, of which less than 200 are white phased.

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