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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. My summary of where the issue is generally: the developing world and people with disabilities are for the treaty, and rich countries and the publishing industry are against the treaty.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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MTM SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED UNDER SMCRA MTM is a mining method that the United States government is largely responsible for creating. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The recent EPA EIS on MTM found that only 6.8% Obvious isn’t it. And they say China is being Orwellian with language as they prepare for the Olympics.)

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. So, in the United States, Benetech created a second equilibrium change. Fast forward to today.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

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In terms of external actions, five options were selected most frequently: protest/petition/testify; join others to protest; urge advocacy groups to apply pressure; encourage donors to sign a petition or call government representatives; and use media to call attention to issue. Summary of Findings.

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