Intellectual Property:

Anti-Piracy Patent Prevents Students from Sharing Books

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-patent-prevents-students-from-sharing-books-120610/

Negotiators Set to Wrap-up Talks on New Treaty to Improve Actors’ and other Performers’ Rights in Audiovisual Productions

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2012/article_0011.html

Australia and WIPO Sign Agreement in Favor of Least-Developed and Developing Countries

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2012/article_0010.html

Dreaming of a DRM free e-book future14 Jun 12

http://www.upstart.net.au/2012/06/14/opinion-dreaming-of-a-drm-free-ebook-future/

 

Freedom of Expression:

New South African press law 'more harmful than apartheid-era censorship'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/06/south-african-press-law-harmful

The Turning Point for Internet Freedom

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1329?frommailing=1

Data Driven Futures- Censorship Takes New Forms

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/data-driven-futures-censorship-takes-new-forms

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Open Access Research in Japanese Institutional Repositoriese Exceeds 1 million full text items

http://bit.ly/MgevsV 

OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenStack

Navigating the uncertain waters of data archiving and curation

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/blog/navigating-uncertain-waters-data-archiving-and-curation

Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions

http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/coapi-supports-frpaa.pdf

Feedbank on SAOUG Conference 2012

http://saoug.org.za/

 

Conference alerts:

  1. Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances

June 20 to 26, 2012 - Beijing, China

http://www.wipo.int/dc2012/en/

  1. 7thInternational Open Repositories Conference

9-13 July 2012 - University of Edinburgh, Scotland

http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/

  1. 14thLIASA Annual Conference

1-5 October 2012 - Durban International Convention Centre, South Africa

http://www.liasa.org.za/node/716