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Intellectual Property:
Drama In South Africa Leads To Passing Fair Use
http://infojustice.org/archives/40677
Statement by Recreate South Africa on The Passing of the Copyright Amendment Bill
http://infojustice.org/archives/40692
Towards WIPO Regional Seminars On Copyright Exceptions: Looking Out For Users
Canada's Statutory Review of the Copyright Act, 2018: my individual submission
https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/12/canadas-statutory-review-of-copyright.html
Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and EU copyright law: Who owns AI?
https://zenodo.org/record/2001763#.XA90hGgzb4Y
The Gap between Artistic Practice and Copyright Rhetoric
http://infojustice.org/archives/40675
Evolution of Africa’s Intellectual Property Treaty Ratification Landscape
Work continues at the World Intellectual Property Organization: a week of #Copyright4Libraries
https://www.ifla.org/node/91732
Disjunction between human rights and IPR
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2018/columnists/disjunction-between-human-rights-and-ipr.html
Nigerian Copyright Reform and Implications for Access to Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) in the Digital Age
http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/26172
Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property - Background Brief - No. 1
https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=3858
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Enhancing access to education for all
http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2018-12/09/content_74250950.htm
The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) - Issue 22, 2018
European funders detail their open-access plan
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/european-funders-detail-their-open-access-plan
Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey
Need for a change in scientific publishing
https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nopos/article/view/4509
The Future Of The Ideas Business – The Rise Of Data-Driven Invention
http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/12/07/future-ideas-business-rise-data-driven-invention/