Intellectual Property:

Accommodating Persons with Sensory Disabilities in South African Copyright Law

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/12525

Western Publishers Sue Delhi University Over Photocopied Textbooks; Students And Authors Fight Back

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130409/09562322635/western-publishers-sue-delhi-university-over-photocopied-textbooks-students-authors-fight-back.shtml

Report on Orphan Works Challenges: for libraries, archives, and other memory institutions

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/documents/report-orphan-works-challenges-libraries-archives-and-other-mem

Dutch Parliament: Downloading Movies and Music will stay Legal

http://torrentfreak.com/dutch-parliament-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111224/

 

Traditional Knowledge Bill (South Africa) – Call for comments

Member of Parliament, Dr. Wilmot James, Submits New Protection of Traditional Knowledge Bill

http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/member-of-parliament-dr-wilmot-james-submits-new-protection-of-traditional-knowledge-bill/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Position Paper on Open Access to Research Outputs in Italy

http://wiki.openarchives.it/images/f/f4/Position_paper_en.pdf

Is this the end of the academic journal?

http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53584

Introducing GuardianWitness, our new platform for content you've created

http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2013/apr/16/introducing-guardianwitness-platform-content-youve-created

Publishing in Discipline-Specific Open Access Journals: Opportunities and Outreach for Librarians

http://bit.ly/17raWYf

Curriki Announces New Online Project-BASED Geometry Course Available Free to Teachers & Students

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130417-909145.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Creators of Public Domain Bible Threatened with Lawsuit by Other Bibles Copyright Monopoly Holders

http://falkvinge.net/2013/04/15/creators-of-public-domain-bible-threatened-with-lawsuit-by-other-bibles-copyright-monopoly-holders/

The Dark and Bright Side of Open Access

http://openscience.com/the-dark-and-the-bright-side-of-open-access/

Open your Data to the World

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238275/Open_your_data_to_the_world

Interview with Mark Patterson, Executive Director of e-Life (OA)

http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2013/04/15/interview-with-mark-patterson-executive-director-of-elife/

 

Conference alerts:

International Counseling and Education Conference

2-4 May, 2013 – Istanbul, Turkey

http://www.ice-c.net

 The International Conference on E-Technologies and Business on the Web (EBW2013)
7-9 May, 2013 - University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC), Bangkok, Thailand
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/ebw2013/

 International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2013)

27-29 November 2013, New Delhi

www.teriin.org/events/icdl