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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. The third pillar of Bookshare International is developing new language capabilities. We have built Bookshare International upon three principles.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

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We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. My favorite scene from the movie is these women, all ages, all sizes, going to surround the peace talks in Ghana, which were essentially going nowhere. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law.

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