1. Reference/Insperation http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html TED Talk: Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong An argument for why charities should make money http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html Fair use of copy right concerning education quote http://toc.oreilly.com/2010/01/bringing-e-books-to-africa-and.html Publishers trying to make a difference in developing countries Arthur Atwell quote http://stallman.org/articles/online-education.html Stallman’s arguments for not asking everyone involved with work for permission to use it http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/bm~doc/issue-brief-kirtsaeng-post-analysis-02apr13.pdf Copy of court majority decision which could be interpreted as supporting this proposal http://creativecommons.org/choose/ Special thanks to my own copyright http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/copyright-ip/2486-copyright-timeline History of decisions by US courts

2. “I don’t think that, for real market penetration in Africa, it’s going to be possible to use the existing person-to-person, deal-by-deal negotiated translation agreements that the publishing industry is used to. It’s not going to be a case of sitting across the table from someone at the London Book Fair signing a rights deal. You’re going to need to have a very flexible way to allow local operators to translate your work into their languages for a very straightforward, standardized, quick, easy license transaction because ultimately, the language is one of the issues of last-mile delivery.” --Arthur Attwell (Electric Book Works) He and others like him shouldn’t be required to do that much work just to help people. This is only one example (but the most articulated one.) An original work by Thomas Kutzner for President 2036 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US. One day tablets will be cheap enough to spread around the globe and everyone will have access to a cruddy cell connection that allows access to online OER (Open Educational Resources.) But that is not today ! This is what we can construct now in the realm of Copyright law to help the world help themselves. The Law: This is the law judges considered when exempting copyright infringement under "fair use"- I WANT BOOKS & E-BOOKS FOR A BETTER WORLD! The Problems: 1. If a company finds a way to make money translating and getting books to underprivileged and impoverished nation then they deserve to bypass the copyright and make money. 2. NOBODY does this because the law says they need permission from every author they publish and distribute. My Solution! One paragraph in the law stating: If the user was underprivileged, living in an impoverished state or if a copier was creative enough to make money copying books of educational value for nations in an impoverished state that they are exempt from copyright law as long as those works of literature were not sold outside that nation for the profit of said copier. “The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes” (Bold text added by me for emphasis) This guy knows…