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Solutions Day 2023—It’s Happening!

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Sponsored by Multiview What’s all the hype about generative AI? Also on her agenda is how copyright law and fair use apply to AI. Sponsored by Impexium The eternal question—Where can we find nondues revenue? Sponsored by WorkerBee.TV Sponsored by Attendee Interactive Our website looks dated. What’s wrong?

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

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I'm here in Geneva for the 20th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting. This is the international forum for discussing copyright issues, and it is the body considering the Treaty for the Visually Impaired (TVI). I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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Solutions Day 2023—Beyond Answers to Insight

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Sponsored by Multiview. One of the biggest is whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright law. Sponsored by Impexium Find Illusive Non-Dues Revenue, featuring Christine Diedrich, Director, Multimedia and Publishing, Society of Petroleum Engineering. Sponsored by WorkerBee.TV Kimberly A.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

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This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

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The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. Generally, support staff will ask the member or sponsor if they are seeing any error messages and which steps they took that produced the error.

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Accessibility and ACTA

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The interests that sponsor provisions like those mooted about the secret ACTA provisions, tend to be anti-innovation, with strong focus on control. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

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We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.