HAPPY NEW YEAR! MAY IT BE A VERY SPECIAL YEAR FOR YOU ALL!
Intellectual Property:
United States: Copyright Law's Impact On Popular Music
http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/454582/Copyright/Copyright+Laws+Impact+On+Popular+Music
Commission takes first steps to broaden access to online content and outlines its vision to modernise EU copyright rules
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6261_en.htm
5 Essential Facts About Fair Use
http://www.copyrightlaws.com/us/5-essential-facts-about-fair-use/
Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
Digital Rights Battles in 2015: NSA Reform, Net Neutrality, CISA and Beyond
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/2015-year-review
Monkey selfie case: judge rules animal cannot own his photo copyright
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/monkey-selfie-case-animal-photo-copyright
New copyright law in Poland heralds new era for libraries
http://www.eifl.net/news/new-copyright-law-poland-heralds-new-era-libraries
What a Mass Exodus at a Linguistics Journal Means for Scholarly Publishing
http://chronicle.com/article/What-a-Mass-Exodus-at-a/234066
Why Copyright Infringement Became Pop’s Big Problem, According to the ‘Blurred Lines’ Musicologist
http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/why-copyright-infringement-became-pops-big-problem.html#
Conference alerts:
Special And Disability Compliance In Higher Education
03 - 04 March, 2016 - Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg, South Africa
For information and registration, email: sendile@melrosetraining.co.za
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2016
13-17 June 2016 – Zadar, Croatia