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Tribute to My Mentor

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I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. Gerry quickly did the legal research and came back to explain that my idea, which seemed like it should be illegal, was 100% permitted under an obscure provision of the copyright law!

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

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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

Third, the print book is not universally accessible. 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. My idea was completely legal!

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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

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The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. Lost productivity. From spyware.

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