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Intellectual Property:
Decolonised Education Means Giving Poor Students Fair Use Of Textbooks
Copyright Office Broadens DMCA Exemption for Filmmakers
U.S. Copyright Office Amends Act in Favor of Open 3d Printer Materials
The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eus-link-tax-will-kill-open-access-and-creative-commons-news
Embargo Headaches: When Funders and Publishers Have Incompatible Policies
https://biblio.unibe.ch/web-apps/wkblog/2018/11/embargo_headaches/
Open Access Books:
Wits University Press announces Open Access Programme
http://witspress.co.za/news/open-access-books-from-wits-university-press/
http://www.oapen.org/search?publisher=Wits%20University%20Press&smode=simple&style=
Open access monographs: perspectives from university presses
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/open-access-monographs-perspectives-from-university-presses/
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)
https://press.rebus.community/the-rebus-guide-to-publishing-open-textbooks/chapter/building-a-team-overview/Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PjeRaz6XRvOiGY2GsmY7J5LHUqwFiUI9v-iC9ZsZaj0/edit#
Human Physiology Students’ Perceptions of etextbooks: Towards Open Access as an Alternative to Traditional Textbooks
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/CAL/article/view/12650
Gitenberg OA Books
How to attach a Creative Commons Licence to your Paper
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/CreativeCommons
Open Science/Open Data:
Reproducibility and Open Science
https://zenodo.org/record/1464853#.W9_nW5MzbDc
Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Document into Open Data
http://www.govtech.com/analytics/Harvard-Converts-Millions-of-Legal-Documents-into-Open-Data.html
New database for medieval literature launched
https://www.uu.se/en/news-media/news/article/?id=11598&area=2,6,16,26&typ=artikel&lang=en