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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Remember how crucial the Section 121 copyright exception was to creating Bookshare?

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Martin Luther King Day 2015

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this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Copyright © 2014. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

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this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Copyright © 2013. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The first publisher to donate books to Bookshare, years ahead of their peers, was O’Reilly Media. Our breakthrough with Bookshare was to put our users in charge of the collection. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? What are the pros/cons of doing so?

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights. Eligibility. a) Nondiscrimination. government (" U.S.

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