This is a free online international Information Service covering various topics, including copyright, plagiarism and other IP matters, Open Access, open publishing, open learning resources, institutional repositories, scholarly communication, digitization and library matters, mobile technologies, issues affecting access to knowledge (A2K), particularly in developing countries; WTO and WIPO treaties and matters; Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS Plus; useful websites, conference alerts, etc. Archives are available at: http://www.africanlii.org/content/copyright-a2k-information. If you would like to subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, this newsletter, please do so at: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo or email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za only (N.B. PLEASE DO NOT SEND TO WHOLE MAILING LIST)
Intellectual Property:
South Africa: Copyright Amendment Bill, Version No. 3, 2018
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/Version3_2018
Response to IIPA Comments to USTR Regarding South Africa’s Copyright Amendments Bill and AGOA Eligibility
http://infojustice.org/archives/40250
Is the U.S. Fair Use Doctrine Compatible with Berne and TRIPS Obligations:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3228052
The Copyright reform must also be fair to European researchers and entrepreneurs
http://eare.eu/copyright-fair-eu-research-and-innovation/
Creative Markets and Copyright in the Fourth Industrial Era: Reconfiguring the Public Benefit for a Digital Trade Economy
The copyright reform bug that risks derailing Europe’s AI ambitions
The future of copyright in Europe
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/copyright-law/51676/
SAMRO’s Dubai scandal deepens
https://www.fin24.com/Companies/ICT/samros-dubai-scandal-deepens-20180902-2
Explainer: can you copyright furniture? (Australia)
http://theconversation.com/explainer-can-you-copyright-furniture-100336
Ninth Circuit Stops Monkeying Around And Denies En Banc Review Of The Monkey Selfie Case
Questionable Publishing Practices:
Competition Commission to investigate price-fixing of school and university textbooks (South Africa)
Predatory Publishing Practices: Is There Life After Beall’s List?
https://www.libres-ejournal.info/2565/
Are the Predatory Publishers Collapsing or Re-Inventing Themselves?
https://www.libres-ejournal.info/2570/
Resources to Avoid Predatory Journal and Book Publishers
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/ScholarlyCommunication/PredatoryPublishing
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Scientific journal subscriptions are facing extinction: open-access is on the horizon in Europe
Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06140-7
Science Without Publication Paywalls: cOAlition S for the Realisation of Full and Immediate Open Access
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002663
Stakeholders united in the charge for transformation: Plan S and the Open Access 2020 Initiative
Peter Suber – Thoughts on Plan S
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PeterSuber/posts/iGEFpdYY9dr
LIBER Supports New Plan to Make Open Access A Reality By 2020
NWO joins international coalition to accelerate the transition to open access
Open Science:
The African Open Science Platform: The Future of Science and the Science of the Future
https://zenodo.org/record/1407488#.W5DdfkxuJgU
Do we need an Open Science Coalition?
http://elephantinthelab.org/do-we-need-an-open-science-coalition/
Conference Alerts:
2018 HEDSA Biennial Symposium
11-12 September 2018 - Johannesburg, South Africa
19th Annual LIASA Conference 2018
8, 9-12 October 2018 – Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.liasa.org.za/19th-liasa-annual-conference/
Respect for IP – Growing from the Tip of Africa : International Conference 2018
23-25 October 2018 – Sandton, South Africa
International Data Week
5-8 November 2018 - Gaborone, Botswana
http://www.codata.org/events/conferences/international-data-week-2018
Science Forum
12-14 December 2018 – Pretoria, South Africa
IFLA WLIC 2019
24-30 August 2019 – Athens, Greece