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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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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: #2/3

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Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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Government funding is slim, and not available in most of the world. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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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!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. It is narrower than the Treaty, and is not binding as a treaty would be (some call it “soft law” compared to the “hard law” of a treaty).

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

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copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. Government, and it talks about being interested in working on addressing the problem and discussing a wide range of solutions including the proposed Treaty. The Chafee Amendment The U.S.

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