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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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It’s a nonprofit or government agency that makes accessible copies of Works, and limits distribution of those copies to people with bona fide disabilities, the “Beneficiary Persons,” defined in the next article. This is satisfied by having a law like the Chafee Amendment in the U.S., It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c).

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. Moreover, Bookshare basically breaks even in the United States thanks to contracts to provide the services, from the U.S.

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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

National Public Radio :: Download. Users can also download stories for offline reading. Humane Society of the United States :: Download. Amnesty International :: Download. VolunteerMatch :: Download. Black Dog Institute :: Download. Human Rights Campaign :: Download. App Name: NPR News.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. Over 350,000 American patrons now download more than a million accessible books and periodicals each year! exception model works well here.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download. I had never heard of it. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

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Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term. The draft can be downloaded from WIPO. law (this is a wildcard issue right now).