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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
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.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 24, 2018
We worked together for over 35 years, from the very beginnings of my Silicon Valley career. I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. In honor of Gerry Davis, April 2018 My mentor passed away earlier this month. Gerry was like a father to me.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 16, 2011
Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley! Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Sharing is an essential part of storytelling, and our friends at Creative Commons are devoted to expanding the number of creative works that are available to (legally!) That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. What Creative Commons license should I use for my work?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. from the majority of IP owners we approach.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2010
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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