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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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Reform Copyright. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Women and Web Literacy Program 2016 – 17. Genève, Switzerland: TEDx Geneva: Comment Faire pour Évoluer? Lausanne, Switzerland: Lausanne/Pully: Entraide Numérique Intergen.Digital de 7 à 107 Ans. Wednesday, November 9, 2016.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Global Redesign Initiative is one of the core themes of next week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone.

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