Copyright & A2K Issues - 2 March 2011

2 March 2011 · Denise Nicholson

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Intellectual Property:

World Blind Union suspends participation in WIPO & EU Stakeholder
discussions, pending agreement at WIPO on legal framework

http://keionline.org/node/1082

Long Week Ahead For WIPO Experts Considering Treaty on IP and Genetic
Resources

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/02/28/long-week-ahead-for-wipo-exper
ts-considering-treaty-on-ip-and-genetic-resources/

Traditional Knowledge:

After Folklore, Traditional Knowledge Makes Steps Toward WIPO Treaty
Text

http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/this-week-in-review-wipo-igc-
working-groups-make-progress-on-tk-continue-with-genetic-resources/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access: Who Calls the Shots Now?

http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2011/02/open-access-who-calls-shots-no
w.html

African Platform on Access to Information

http://windhoekplus20.org/

The eBook User's Bill of Rights

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/02/28/the-ebook-user%E2%80%99s-bi
ll-of-rights/

FCForum Declaration: Sustainable Models for Creativity v1.0 (PDF)
<http://fcforum.net/files/sustainable-creativity/Fcf_Decla-eng_1-0.pdf>

http://fcforum.net/files/sustainable-creativity/Fcf_Decla-eng_1-0.pdf

One Laptop Per Child and the African Union Commit to Providing Laptops
to Primary School Students Throughout Africa
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110216005342/en/Laptop-Child-Afr
ican-Union-Commit-Providing-Laptops

Open Attribute - Give Credit Where Credit is Due

http://openattribute.com/

Intech Open Access Publisher

http://www.intechweb.org/

How do we Measure the Effectiveness of Institutional Repositories?

http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/how-do-we-measure-the-effecti
veness-of-institutional-repositories/

Keep Your Copyrights

http://www.keepyourcopyrights.org/

The Pitfalls of e-Book Buying: What to Look Out for Before You Purchase

http://www.pcworld.com/article/219335/the_pitfalls_of_ebook_buying_what_
to_look_out_for_before_you_purchase.html

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FYI,

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Intellectual Property:

New research on commercial copyright infringement in South Africa

http://aliquidnovi.org/new-research-on-commercial-copyright-infringement
-in-south-africa/

Review of Royalty Distribution by Collecting Societies (South Africa)

http://aliquidnovi.org/review-of-royalty-distribution-by-collecting-soci
eties/

Librarians launch boycott in battle over e-books

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-03-08-libraries08_ST_N.htm

HarperCollins responds to angered librarians

http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/harpercollins-responds-to-angered-librari
ans/

HarperCollins makes changes to library e-book sales and lending

http://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/index.cfm?srch=3&postid=1251

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Making the most of open content: why we need to understand use

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/03/07/opencontentstories/

EC launches inquiry on price-fixing on e-books by European publishers

http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=12409&pic
kUpBatch=1640

Illustrating of the potential for savings with a global shift to open
access

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/illustrating-of-potential-fo
r-savings.html

Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick

http://www.hastac.org/blogs/lisa-klarr/planned-obsolescence-interview-ka
thleen-fitzpatrick

Google News Archive Search

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Open Learning Resources:

The University of Nottingham opens up its teaching to the world

http://media-newswire.com/release_1144258.html

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx

Regards

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Mar 11 09:46:20 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:46:20 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 10 March 2011
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FYI,

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Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Even WIPO Realizing That Copyright Law May Have Gone Too Far

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110310/03032313426/even-wipo-realizin
g-that-copyright-law-may-have-gone-too-far.shtml

Canadian Funded Study Provides New Insights Into Global Piracy Claims

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5675/125/

World Blind Union Won't Be Sidetracked in Quest for Treaty on Reading
Access

http://bit.ly/gKTTwp

Author's Rights - Copyright Tool Box

http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/

Medicine Patent Pool

http://www.medicinespatentpool.org/

Traditional Knowledge:

Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural
Expressions/Folklore

http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Mar 11 11:20:04 2011
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:20:04 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 11 March 2011
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FYI,

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Denise

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Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Research Funders' Open Access Policies

http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Service/Publish-and-register-in-DiVA/Open-Access-
Publishing/Research-funders-OA-policies/

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

Growing knowledge: Access to research in east and southern African
universities

http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/sites/default/files/arc_pub_africanconnect
ivity_theassociationofcommonwealthunis_0.pdf

Open Access and the Mission of Research Libraries

http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12
8&Itemid=259

Paying Open Access Publishing Fees

http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26
5&catid=79&Itemid=256

Open Access, Knowledge and Democracy

http://bit.ly/fXYShd

Open Access Africa 2010 (Presentations now available online)

http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/openaccessafrica

Open Educational Resources:

Free Textbooks and e-Books (can download)

http://www.friedbeef.com/7-best-places-to-download-free-textbooks/

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-websites-to-download-free-e-books/

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks

http://www.intechopen.com/

The Internet Archive - OER

http://www.archive.org/details/education

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Mar 15 13:03:06 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:03:06 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 March 2011
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Can South African Internet Service Providers be held liable for allowing
subscribers to access foreign sites?

http://aliquidnovi.org/

Review of Royalty Distribution by Collecting Societies (South Africa)

http://aliquidnovi.org/review-of-royalty-distribution-by-collecting-soci
eties

Why is the South African Government investigating collecting societies?:

http://aliquidnovi.org/why-is-the-south-african-government-investigating
-collecting-societies/

Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/son-of-acta-meet-the-nex
t-secret-copyright-treaty.ars

The Rio Papers (Copyright issues)

http://copysouth.org/portal/theriopapers

IP Enforcement Permeates ICANN, US Internet Policy

http://bit.ly/e9N5Jv

DRM for Broadband Video

http://www.abiresearch.com/research/1007041-DRM+for+Broadband+Video

Cory Doctorow: How free translates to business survival

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12701664

Cory Doctorow: DRM is no friend of business

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12702081

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Demise of the Big Deal

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/03/demise-of-big-deal.html

ROARMAP : Registry of OA Repository Material Archiving Policies

http://roarmap.eprints.org

Things you should know about Open Textbook Publishing

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7070.pdf

6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/6-top-tech-trends-on-the-horizon-
for-education/29581

The Horizon Report 2011

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

Open Educational Resources;

Open Educational Resources for Development

http://www.scribd.com/doc/50709405/Open-Educational-Resources-for-Develo
pment

VUMA Student Portal

http://www.vuma.ac.za/

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Mar 16 14:50:24 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:50:24 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 16 March 2011
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FYI,

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Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Publisher limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/business/media/15libraries.html?emc=et
a1

http://bit.ly/gQpKpB

HarperCollins snubs Libraries with Self-Destructing e-Books

http://blog.laptopmag.com/harpercollins-snubs-libraries-with-self-destru
cting-ebooks

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication

Flatworld Knowledge

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Data Mining and Repositories

http://rcsproject.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/data-mining-and-repositories/

Academic Reference Manager

http://www.mendeley.com/

Plagiarism

German scientists outraged in defence minister plagiarism affair -
February 28, 2011

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/02/german_scientists_ou
traged_in.html

Traditional Knowledge:

Traditional Knowledge: Is Perpetual Protection a Good thing?

http://law.unh.edu/assets/pdf/idea-vol50-no4-oseitutu.pdf

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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