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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. He came back the next day and gave me unbelievably positive news.

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Why Your Country Should Ratify the Marrakesh Treaty

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The good news is that there are now unprecedented opportunities to transform the lives of these millions by removing barriers of access to information  —   and this is where you can help. It does so by making it legal under copyright to create accessible books without needing to seek permission or (in most countries) paying a royalty.

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Optimistic about Marrakesh Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The attendees were mostly the regional coordinators of the campaign, and the news was good. We’re doing a ton of work with partners in India , the first country to ratify it, to allow people in India to take full advantage of India’s now-favorable copyright environment. It even seems likely that it could happen in 2015!

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Green Technology. Anything I missed?

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. The good news is that users without disabilities generally hate these locks. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. Today, Bookshare has more than 175,000 books available in the U.S.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

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In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library. Our innovative approach has revolutionized the traditional library for people with print disabilities. In the U.S.,

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), 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. We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it!

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