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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period. Google, who has been sued by the same publishers for alleged copyright violations.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

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According to Earthday.org, “b y the end of 1970, the first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of other first of their kind environmental laws, including the National Environmental Education Act,?the 2000 – The United National Global Compact is launched.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Stan, who recently completed his MBA from Duke, is now the interim education program manager for Bookshare.