Intellectual Property:

TF1 loses copyright battle against YouTube

http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.aspx?g=c6dc98c4-984b-4484-a968-9509f7d27c28

A New Chapter for eBooks

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120817-a-new-chapter-for-ebooks/1

What Google's New Stance on Copyright Infringement Means to Your Business

http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/224214?cam=Dev&ctp=Carousel&cdt=13&cdn=224214

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Hat Tip: David Weinberger interviews open access advocate Peter Suber

http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/hat-tip-david-weinberger-interviews-open-access-advocate-peter-suber/

CLOCKSS Archive Is Pleased to Announce the Participation of Five New Publishers in Its Digital Preservation Archive

http://www.clockss.org/clockss/News#Duke

 

Persons with Disabilities:

IFLA Manifesto for Libraries serving Persons with a Print Disability

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/manifesto-for-libraries-serving-persons-with-a-print-disability-final-draft

Seminar on Disabilities and Human Rights - 31 August 2012, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa

To attend, ring Gilbert Mamorobela: Tel: 012 4415648 / Fax: 086 273 7678

or E-mail: mamormg@unisa.ac.za before 24 August 2012.

 

Digitisation and Digital Curation:

Understanding Digital Curation

http://duraspace.org/understanding-digital-curation-digital-curation-resource-guide-digital-scholarship

 

Plagiarism:

Classroom cheating in the digital age

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2012/08/classroom_cheating_in_the_digital_age.html

The spectre of plagiarism haunting Europe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/18962349

 

Conference alerts:

ETD 2013: Asian Values, Western Thought, World Treasure!

16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations -

23-26 September 2013 – Hong Kong

http://lib.hku.hk/etd2013

WHO, WIPO and WTO events for rest of 2012

http://keionline.org/node/1531