Happy New Year to all subscribers of my newsletter.  I wish you everything of the best for 2013.

 

Intellectual Property:

USTR Requests Comments for 2013 Special 301 Report, Announces Hearing on February 20

http://infojustice.org/archives/28215

US IP Officials Blast NGOs In Geneva

http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/12/16/us-ip-officials-blast-ngos-in-geneva-trying-to-change-views-on-ip/

A Mixed Bag For Fair Use In China’s Newest Copyright Law Draft

http://infojustice.org/archives/28005

The U.S. Proposal for an Intellectual Property Chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2185402

South African ISPs squeezed by newly proposed legislation

http://www.apc.org/en/node/16088

Modernising copyright in the UK - a modern, robust and flexible framework?

http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2012/12/modernising-copyright-in-uk-modern.html

UK Copyright Exceptions Which Prove the Rule

http://laurencekaye.typepad.com/laurence_kayes_blog/2012/12/uk-copyright-exceptions-which-prove-the-rule.html

Modernising Copyright: A modern, robust and flexible framework (UK)

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/response-2011-copyright-final.pdf

What to Watch For in Canadian Intellectual Property Law in 2013

http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/

2012 – The Copyright Year

http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-copyright-year.html

China – The country that can copy anything

http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2013/01/china-country-that-can-copy-anything.html

Copyright, new media law & e-commerce news archives

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/copyright-a/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

How Open is this?

http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/

Africa’s First Creative Commons 3.0 Licenses!

http://infojustice.org/archives/28067

The Smartest Thing in Publishing is to be Flexible

http://www.40kbooks.com/?p=13656

New Paper from the Association for Progressive Communications and the Internet Society Connects Internet Protocols and Human Rights

http://www.apc.org/en/node/16123

Communia Positive Agenda for the Public Domain

http://www.communia-association.org/2012/12/05/communia-positive-agenda-for-the-public-domain/