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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. This is satisfied by having a law like the Chafee Amendment in the U.S., or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

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Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States. This is already apparent in IDEA 2004, the most recent reauthorization of national special education law.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. government and states like Texas. The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world.

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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

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National Public Radio :: Download. The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch, the NPR News App allows you to follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to. Users can also download stories for offline reading. App Name: NPR News.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

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Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. Over 350,000 American patrons now download more than a million accessible books and periodicals each year! exception model works well here.

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

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He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). We have over half a million readers in the United States, and over 625,000 different ebook titles available for instant download. I had never heard of it. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

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I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term. The draft can be downloaded from WIPO. This draft can be downloaded from the DAISY Consortium. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . •