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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

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For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. of America v.

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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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Just Joined a New Federal Commission!

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I recently was sworn in by Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter as one of nineteen people serving on the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities. The details are linked to here in the Federal Register , and includes a pointer to the actual law section.

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

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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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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

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owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Educational organizations walk a fine line: enabling student access. What It Is. Lost productivity. cyberbullying.

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The Struggle for Book Access: Amazon (Blog Post #2)

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The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. In the 1990s Benetech was the leading provider of reading systems to blind people and our product was actually named "An Open Book."] The advocates will sue the schools for choosing Kindle textbooks and violating the civil rights of disabled students. The Textbook problem.

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