Copyright & A2K Issues - 1 July 2011

1 July 2011 · Denise Nicholson

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Intellectual Property:

Supreme Court Case Highlights Challenges of Copyright

http://media-newswire.com/release_1154370.html

"Jailbreaking" is now Fair Use (USA)

http://www.manufacturing.net/Articles/2011/06/Jailbreaking-Is-Now-Fair-Use/

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/copyright-interests-force-private-censors...

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

The Power of Open (can download)

http://thepowerofopen.org/

IFLA Journal June 2011

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/out-now-june-2011-issue-of-ifla-journal

College & Research Libraries resources

http://crl.acrl.org/content/current

Elsevier's Position on Open Access

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/access_dissemination

The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0020961

A Great Moment for Free Flow of Information

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/06/great-moment-for-free-flo...

Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue66/hitchcock-tarrant/

Academic Liaison Librarianship: Curatorial Pedagogy or Pedagogical Curation?

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue65/parsons/

Science & Innovation Policy: Overcoming gender barriers in science

http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/overcoming-gender...

PressForward: A new project aims to rethink scholarly communication for the age of new media journalism

http://bit.ly/mLd16X

Civilized Internet? Anglo-American-EU efforts to triangulate on Internet governance

http://internetcoregulation.blogspot.com/2011/06/civilized-internet-angl...

eBooks and eReaders in Public and Academic Libraries

http://www.poudrelibraries.org/about/pdf/ereader-report-2011extended.pdf

Open Grey

http://www.opengrey.eu/

http://www.opengrey.eu/search/request?q=greynet

Conference Alerts:

First Annual Conference on Indigenous Knowledge & Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Africa

23-24 August 2011 0- University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe

Information: Email - emaisiri at nust.ac.zw

Management Society (ARMS) 2011 Conference

13-16 September, 2011 - Dockside, Sydney, Australia

www.arms2011.org.au

International Digital Curation Conference - "Digital Enhancement of Knowledge"

5-7 December 2011 - Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol, United Kingdom

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/idcc11pc.pdf

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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:05:20 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 6 July 2011
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Intellectual Property:

WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR): 22nd
Session

http://www.ifla.org/en/node/5684

Law Professors Urge Rejection of the PROTECT-IP Act (S.968)(US)

http://infojustice.org/archives/4124

DRMs - It's about Lock In by John Schember

http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/drm-its-all-about-lock-in-by-john-sch
ember/

The Copyright Amendment Bill 2010: on the death of books and the digital
environment (India)

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2156475.ece

Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player Illegal?

http://bit.ly/lfYi2n

Harvard Professor opposed 'Three Strikes' law

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5226020/Harvard-professor-opposes-thre
e-strikes-law

Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and Effective
University-Industry Partnerships -

The Experience of China, India, Japan, Philippines, the Republic of
Korea, Singapore and Thailand

http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/intproperty/928/wipo_pub_928.pdf

Cameron urged to accept copyright reform proposals (UK)

http://bit.ly/jY7Bcn

Communique on Principles for Internet Policy-Making (OECD)

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/40/21/48289796.pdf

Traditional Knowledge:

Free Information Products on TK (WIPO)

http://www.wipo.int//freepublications/en/index.jsp?cat=tk
<http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/index.jsp?cat=tk>

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Jul 7 09:09:20 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 09:09:20 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 7 July 2011
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FYI,

Regards

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (2) - Copyright Issues

http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/copyright.htm

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Libraries for An Open Environment: strategies, technologies and
partnerships

Conference programme and papers of the IATUL Conference in Warsaw, 2011
- http://www.bg.pw.edu.pl/iatul2011/proceedings/index.html

Open Biology

http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/

Open Access Map launched

http://intechweb.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/open-access-map-launched/

LIASA-in-Touch 2010 editions (now Open Access)

http://www.liasa.org.za/node/558

Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/themes/content/sca/SCAMOREGuide.pd
f

Funders unveil 'elite' open access journal

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2011/July/04071102.asp

APC Guide to Working Online

http://www.apc.org/en/system/files/APCGuideToWorkingOnline.pdf

Open Learning Resources:

Free Open Learning Resources (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wdZKpRoW7Q

Mobile Technologies:

iPad magazines

http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2011/06/ipad_magazines.htm

A Bill of Rights for Facebook Users
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196798/a_bill_of_rights_for_facebook_user
s.html?tk=rel_news

Conference Alerts (in South Africa):

Workshop on Traditional Medicine and Intellectual Property Rights

Hosted jointly by the Dept. of Science and Technology (DST) and the
National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) 14-15 July 2011 -
Pretoria, South Africa

http://www.nstf.org.za/

International Intellectual Property Conference

1-2 September 2011 - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

http://bit.ly/nPL8un

ETD 2011 - 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and
Dissertations

13-17 September 2011 - Cape Town, South Africa.

http://bit.ly/gcNEq4

Developing Knowledge for Economic Advancement in Africa:

2nd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives
(ICADLA-2)

14 - 18 November 2011 - Johannesburg, South Africa

http://www.wits.ac.za/newsroom/conferences/13135/home.html

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Jul 21 15:09:04 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:09:04 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 20 July 2011
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FYI,

Regards

Denise

Intellectual Property:

ACTA P: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - an assessment

http://www.erikjosefsson.eu/sites/default/files/DG_EXPO_Policy_Departmen
t_Study_ACTA_assessment.pdf

New Register of Copyrights: "Unfortunately, I start with enforcement

http://bit.ly/qzedoF

Activist Swartz Indicted for Massive MIT and JSTOR Data Theft

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/activist-swartz-indicted-for-massive-mi
t-and-jstor-data-theft/

http://gothamist.com/2011/07/20/open_access_hacktivist_in_deep_doo-.php

The Difference between Google and Aaron Swartz

http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/07/20/the-difference-between-goo
gle-and-aaron-swartz/

Hargreaves Review - the effects on schools (UK)

http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/

Independent writer's admission highlights news copyright issues

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/28/law-expert-view-johann-hari-co
pyright

Green Paper on the online distribution of audiovisual works in the
European Union: opportunities

and challenges towards a digital single market

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/docs/2011/audiovisual/
green_paper_COM2011_427_en.pdf

Orphan Works: The Cultural Heritage Perspective

http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/hargreaves/orphan-works:-the-cultural-he
ritage-perspective

Traditional Knowledge:

Extension Of WIPO Committee On TK, Genetic Resources Appears Likely

http://bit.ly/rcyIaG

Disability Issues:

Global Disability Rights Library

http://www.usicd.org/index.cfm/global-disability-rights-librsary

http://gdrl.org

Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/deaf_and_hardofhearing

Resources for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Jul 21 15:11:30 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:11:30 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 21 July 2011
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FYI,

Regards

Denise

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Do we need an alternative to peer-reviewed journals?

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/do-we-need-an-alternative-to
-peer-reviewed-journals.ars

Killing Peer Review

http://bit.ly/q9boza

Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google?

http://bit.ly/r9GxS3

Open Questions on Open Courseware

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/07/07/essay_on_unanswered_quest
ions_about_open_courseware

>From institutional repositories to personal collections of learning
resources

http://journal.webscience.org/583/

Institutional Repository Communication Platform (Africa)

http://www.ir-africa.info/

A Digital Helping Hand for Scholarly Work

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/a-digital-helping-hand-for-
scholarly-work/

Open Work Using Social Software to Make our work Visible Again.

http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/enterprise/2011/07/open_work_using_social_sof
twar.php

How One Library Digitized Its Community's Newspapers

http://bit.ly/ocjg1F

Mobile Technologies and Social Media

Mobile Library Applications: What Counts as Success?

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/washburn-io.pdf

Scoop.it

http://www.scoop.it/

Pearltrees (Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjooxoNXx4&feature=player_embedded

M-Libraries (wiki)

http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=M-Libraries

Mobile Trip Planner

http://www.tripit.com/

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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