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:
New Copyright Law Will Benefit South Africans with Disabilities
https://theconversation.com/new-copyright-law-will-benefit-south-africans-with-disabilities-123225
‘Fair use’ in new Copyright Bill benefits everyone
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-17-fair-use-in-new-copyright-bill-benefits-everyone/
Copyright Bill will make cost of studying cheaper
Creative Markets And Copyright In The Fourth Industrial Era: Reconfiguring The Public Benefit For A Digital Trade Economy
Copyright Issues And Teachers’ Dilemma In Asia Pacific
http://infojustice.org/archives/41549
Digitisation, Copyright And The Glam Sector: Constructing A Fit-For-Purpose Safe Harbour Regime
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3449037
University Patenting: Is Private Law Serving Public Values?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3443692
Access To Information Of Disabled People On The Web: A Dispute Between Accessibility And Digital Rights Management
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3420801
Examples of Successful Fair Use in Documentary Film
https://cmsimpact.org/resource/examples-of-successful-fair-use-in-documentary-film/
Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement on Best Practices on Fair Use
https://cmsimpact.org/code/documentary-filmmakers-statement-of-best-practices-in-fair-use/
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/code-of-best-practices-fair-use.pdf
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare
https://cmsimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/10-305-OCW-Oct29.pdf
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Open-access megajournals lose momentum
Competition Commission may force South African networks to drop data prices
Open access to teaching material – how far have we come?
Elsevier vice-president aims to fix ‘disjoint’ with academics
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-vice-president-aims-fix-disjoint-academics
New Deals Could Help Scientific Societies Survive Open Access
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/new-deals-could-help-scientific-...
The road to OA: Starting or flipping a journal
https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/road-to-oa-starting-flipping-journal/
Celebrating Open Access Week at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
OA Seminar - 2 October 2019 at Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Solomon Mahlangu House, Wits, East Campus, Braamfontein, SA
See programme - RSVP to Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za before 25 September 2019