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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

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One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. HathiTrust.

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

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I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models. It was highly controversial. And, the U.S.

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

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They each transformed their personal pain to create change for the greater good. If you order In Search of Hope on Glamour.com , Glamour will donate 100 percent of the book's proceeds and royalties to charities (listed below) selected by the women who were profiled.