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Solutions Day 2023—It’s Happening!

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Nonprofit attorney Kimberly Pendo, a founding member of Chicago Law Partners, is going to discuss the issues we all need to understand. Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. Get advice on the dos and don’ts from an expert. Sponsored by Association Analytics Our customer experience could use help.

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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

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Pendo, Founding Member of Chicago Law Partners, LLC. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. Kimberly practices not-for-profit and corporate law. Sponsored by Multiview. Kimberly A. Kimberly Pendo AI is rapidly changing the world, and the non-profit sector is no exception.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

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copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The copyright exception is designed to help only "blind or other people with disabilities."

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law.

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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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Just Joined a New Federal Commission!

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We have top leaders from the Department, the disability community including students, publishers, the Copyright Office, academia and other experts. The details are linked to here in the Federal Register , and includes a pointer to the actual law section.

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Let Freedom Ring

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The angry and insistent voices of the factions that make up today’s political landscape are like all the bands marching in the Independence Day parade of my youth, each playing its own patriotic song in its own key as loudly as it can in a vain attempt to drown out the other bands; each band convinced of its right to be more equal than others.

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