Copyright & A2K Issues - 12 January 2010

12 January 2010 · Denise Nicholson

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Happy New Year and All the Best for 2010!

FYI,

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Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Fate of WIPO, ACTA, and other intellectual property pushes in the
international economy

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/the-fate-of-wipo-acta-and-othe.html

Legislators Worldwide Asking Questions about ACTA

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4671/125/

Senator Wyden's letter to the USTR on ACTA

http://keionline.org/node/743

National Writers' Union - FAQ about the revised Google Book Search
copyright infringement settlement proposal

http://www.nwubook.org/NWU-GBS2-FAQ.html

The Public Domain:

What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain in January 1, 2010?

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre1976

New Works in the South African Public Domain

http://aliquidnovi.org/2010/01/02/new-works-in-the-south-african-public-
domain/

Traditional Knowledge and the Fight for the Public Domain

http://preprodpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=982655&rec=1&s
rcabs=890657

Open Access, A2K & Scholary Communication:

How has social media transformed traditional business models?

http://www.simplyzesty.com/business/virtual-workforce/

Putting the "Public" Back into Public-Funded Research

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/putting-public-publicly-funded-rese
arch

Africa Needs Strong ICT Policies

http://www.changewaves.org/2010/01/africa-needs-strong-ict-policies/

Social Networks not new but different

http://www.pontydysgu.org/2010/01/social-networks-not-new-but-different/

A Talk with Antony Williams of ChemSpider

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2010/01/10/a-talk-with-antony-williams-o
f-chemspider/

Bridging the Digital Divide Through Open Access

http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/bridging-the-digital-divide-through-op
en-access.html

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:59:00 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 13 January 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Fair Use:

First Annual World's Fair Use Day 12 January 2010

http://blogs.tdl.org/tamu-scholarly-communication/2010/01/11/first-annua
l-worlds-fair-use-day-wfud/

Intellectual Property:

Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1535067

Reading Between The Still Secret Lines Of The ACTA Negotiations

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100111/2149377710.shtml

Concerns Raised about Secrecy of IP Agreement

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3857946

Big Step Forward on Treaty for the Visually Impaired at WIPO

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/12/22/big-step-forward-on-treaty-for
-the-visually-impaired-at-wipo/

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Why Research Articles should be publicly-accessible

http://culturingscience.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/why-research-articles-s
hould-be-publicly-accessible-shulenburger-2009-plos-biology

Open Knowledge Free Culture Conference report

http://southeastasiancinema.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/uff-its-over-open-k
nowledge-free-culture-conference-successfully-completed/

Web 2.0 in the academic sector

http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/2010/01/12/web-2-0-in-the-aca
demic-sector/

A Landscape Study of Shared Infrastructure Services in the Australian
Academic Sector

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/439/1/Aust-SIS-Landscape-report-final.pd
f

Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study A survey of the use of
Web 2.0 tools and services in the UK HE sector

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/438/1/JISC-SIS-Landscape-report-v3.0.pdf

Drupal Rocks

http://www.homebasedblogging.com/2010/01/drupal-rocks/

Open Learning Resources (OER):

MSU Researchers Given Grant to Study in Africa

http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/01/msu_researchers_given
_grant_to_study_in_africa

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Jan 15 14:25:59 2010
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:25:59 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K issues - 15 January 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

ACTA Debate (Video)

http://keionline.org/actadebate

Google challenge to China over censorship

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/13/google-china-censorship
-battle

France Likely to Work with Google on Digitization

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6715006.html

Indigenous Rights Ignored in Global IP Policy

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/01/14/un-report-indigenous-rights-ig
nored-in-global-ip-policy/

Further Down the Rabbit Hole - Are Universities Commercial Entities?

http://aliquidnovi.org/2010/01/14/further-down-the-rabbit-hole-are-unive
rsities-commercial-entities/

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

ACA2K Briefing Paper No. 3 and Statement at WIPO SCCR 19 December 2009

http://www.aca2k.org/index.php?option=com_idoblog&task=viewpost&id=258&I
temid=73&lang=en

Lawrence Lessig on Open Content and the Ethics of Science

http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2010/01/13/lawrence-lessig-o
n-open-content-and-the-ethics-of-science/

PubMedCentral Canada now available

http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/

Beating the Drum for Open

http://aliquidnovi.org/2010/01/12/beating-the-drum-for-open/

The Horizon Report 2010

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf

e-Books: the compatibility conundrum

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech-Culture/2010/0114/E-readers-the
-compatibility-conundrum

National Library of The Netherlands Plans to Digitize Everything

http://www.kb.nl/bst/beleid/bp/2010/index-en.html

Open Educational Resources in India's National Development

http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/272051_731355195_909097030.pdf

US Scholarly Publishing Roundtable calls for Open Access and Digital
Preservation

http://eng.i-iter.org/content/us-scholarly-publishing-roundtable-calls-o
pen-access-and-digital-preservation

Conferences:-

IFLA Africa Section : Call for Papers on "Open Access in Africa - trends
and developments"

IFLA Conference - 10-15 August 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden

http://www.ifla.org/en/calls-for-papers/1929

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Jan 20 11:25:15 2010
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:25:15 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 20 January 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

Panelists debate Copyrights, Open Internet in US Broadband Plan

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2010/01/panelists-debate-copyrights-open-i
nternet-in-u-s-broadband-plan/

Obama Admin: Mandated Exemptions can Strengthen Copyright

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/obama-admin-mandated-exe
mptions-can-strengthen-copyright.ars

The Digital Wall of China

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/news/2010/01/18/digital-wall-c
hina

Concerns Raised About Secrecy of IP Agreement

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3857946

African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project - Resources,
Research Findings, Blog, etc.

www.aca2k.org

Open Educational Resources:

OpenCourseWare bring both new Benefits and Questions to Universities

http://www.dailycardinal.com/opinion/opencourseware-brings-both-new-bene
fits-and-questions-to-universities-1.1076745

Quick Reference Guide to Finding Creative Commons Material

http://pre2009.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/webdav/site/flxsite/shared/AC
T/Quick_Reference_Guide_to_Finding_Creative_Commons_Material.pdf

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Open access also means open for challenges
<http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=331>

http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=331

Where Libraries and Research Data Intersect

http://www.carl-abrc.ca/horaire/2009/fgm2009_presentations-e.html

Bringing e-books to African and the Middle East

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/bringing-e-books-to-africa-and.html

Electronic Dissertations: eIFL.net and NDLTD signed a Memorandum of
Understanding

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/18/electronic-dissertations-eifl-ne
t-and-ndltd-signed-a-memorandum-of-understanding/

Know your rights as an author

http://agrischolars.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/know-your-rights-as-the-aut
hor/

http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.shtml

Podcasts can inform poor farmers

http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/podcasts-can-inform-poor-farmers.html

Preservation for Institutional Repositories: Practical and Invisible

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/22227962/Preservation-for-Institutional-Repo
sitories-practical-and-invisible

Scholarly Communications Report

http://www.screport.info/

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Jan 26 14:46:59 2010
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:46:59 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 26 January 2010
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

WIPO Studies on Limitations and Exceptions for Education (various
regions)

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=17462

WIPO Welcomes EU's Ratification of the WIPO "Internet Treaties"

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2009/article_0059.html

Obama's mixed record on tech policy

tech on
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05fae1c8-09f7-11df-8b23-00144feabdc0.html

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100125/0539377890.shtml

Blogging ACTA across the globe: CIPPIC's David Fewer on ACTA Means for
Canadian Citizens

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/blogging-acta-across-globe-cippics-
david-fewer-wha

Protecting IP Rights DOES protect against counterfeiting (Uganda)

http://policynetwork.blogs.com/fightingdiseases/2010/01/protecting-ip-ri
ghts-does-protect-against-counterfeiting.html

Q & AL: " Intellectual Property Rights Do Not Assure Quality"

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=50013

'Internal interests first, EPA later'

http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16640

Imagine There's No Copyright and No Cultural Conglomerates Too (free to
download book)

http://www.culturelink.org/news/publics/2009/publication2009-023.html

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Data.gov.uk goes public - and its using CKAN!
<http://blog.okfn.org/2010/01/21/datagovuk-goes-public-and-its-using-cka
n/>

http://blog.okfn.org/2010/01/21/datagovuk-goes-public-and-its-using-ckan
/

Telecentres in Uganda do not appeal to rural women

http://www.genderevaluation.net/mygem/news/telecentres_uganda_do_not_app
eal_rural_women?1407269383=1

The Public Library Innovation Program

http://plip.eifl.net/

Conference Alerts:

Libraries and Copyright in the Digital Age (USA)

30 March 2010 - Online Webcast

http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1msxi8

A2K and Human Rights Conference

Yale University, USA - 12-13 February 2010

http://yaleisp.org/2009/11/a2k4/

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:07:57 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 28 January 2010
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