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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

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To help our colleagues build the skills they would need to handle fast-moving technology, we spent a lot of time talking with thought leaders. This technology is being used to create new forms of content, automate tasks that were once done by humans, and make it easier for people to infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of others.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

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Migel, whose experiences with blindness caused during World War I, led to him helping start the Foundation. This is the field where I found my life’s calling, applying technology to meet critical needs of society, where the market is likely to fail. That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Second, the Treaty allows for easier import and export of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works. Technological Protection Measures. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal?

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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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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AI in Marketing and Art

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Media Cause employs talented, world-class designers who can illustrate or mock-up just about any concept you can think of. I asked Rob Shaw, Art Director at Media Cause , for his thoughts on the implications of text-to-image technology: . The post <b>AI in Marketing and Art</b> appeared first on Media Cause.

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Why Your Country Should Ratify the Marrakesh Treaty

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This historic international copyright exception treaty paves the way for a future in which people who cannot read regular printed materials can have equal access to books, regardless of where they live. Helping people with disabilities gain access to education and books is a cause everyone can identify with. It is politically popular.

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Accessibility and ACTA

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A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment.