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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

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HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

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Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

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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. It remains an option under the Treaty, though.

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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. Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a library.

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

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First, they are place-based. What if you live in a place without physical books or can’t get to where the books are? I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. Consider the issues with printed books. In order to read a printed book, you must have physical access to it.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

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The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand. The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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