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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. We can do better!

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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, thanks to our Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. What Is Creative Commons?

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. inappropriate language, pornography, and other questionable influences. Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. from legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Lost productivity.

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This Digital Marketing Process Will Make You Write Better Content

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Avoid Copyright Infringement. The best way to avoid this type of action is to ask for permission or purchase a license. In Google, you also have the option to filter out copyrighted images under the tools section. In Google, you also have the option to filter out copyrighted images under the tools section.

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