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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

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Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. Viji told the magazine. Even as a volunteer, Viji began bugging me about the need to expand Bookshare’s collection of accessible books and magazines to readers around the world.

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Disney Mashup on Fairuse and Copyright

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via Amalyah Keshet and Wired Magazine " Hijacked Disney Characters Explain Copyright " The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden , came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. Stanford's Fair Use Project--to which Stanford Law professor, Copyright guru, Creative Commons advocate and Wired.

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What the Creative in 'Creative Commons' Really Means - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

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What the Creative in 'Creative Commons' Really Means - News and Analysis by PC Magazine: "It gives creators who never went to law school the vocabulary they need to work through the copyright system,' says Vaidhyanathan. 'It It lets creators understand that copyright is not one right; it's a bundle of rights.

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Delivering Bestsellers to the Bookshare Community

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If we see an error in a book, we can't break the copyright by correcting our digital version. Bookshare’s collection of more than 80,000 books, newspapers and magazines, is free to qualified U.S. This entire process is completed by Friday afternoon so bestsellers can be proofed and uploaded to Bookshare as soon as possible.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. All of this work helps us support the international effort for full implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty —a global copyright exception model that provides the legal framework for greater sharing of accessible books across national borders.

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

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The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. Mercy Corps publishes his writing in the form of exclusive stories for newspapers and magazines. We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Art in New York

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Here are the details : art… Artist Cindy Workman has a new show called “Les Demoiselles&# that features arresting, composite images of women fashioned from disparate sources including magazines, online images, even sewing pattern envelopes.