Intellectual Property:

SA Copyright Amendment Bill goes back to Parliament

https://pmg.org.za/bill/705/

President Cyril Ramaphosa refers Copyright and Performers’ Protection Amendment Bills to Parliament

https://bit.ly/2NqJ9W4

Blind SA Constitutional Challenge of the Copyright Amendment Bill

https://blindsa.org.za/news/

South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill Returned to Parliament for Further Consideration 

http://infojustice.org/archives/42426

Long walk to copyright reform: South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/06/long-walk-to-copyright-reform-south.html

Copyright reforms likely unconstitutional says SA President in major decision

http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2020/06/copyright-reforms-likely.html

Comments by WIPO Copyright Director Undermines IIPA's South Africa Petition

http://infojustice.org/archives/42414

Copyright Exceptions across Borders: Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty

http://infojustice.org/archives/42403

Canada: Canadian Copyright Law Updates (June 2020)

https://www.mondaq.com/canada/copyright/951436/canadian-copyright-law-updates-june-2020

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

You can publish open access, but ‘big’ journals still act as gatekeepers to discoverability and impact

https://bit.ly/3dqUMaj

Publisher Open Access Policies: Introducing Sherpa Romeo v2

https://www.infodocket.com/2020/06/16/open-access-policies-introducing-sherpa-romeo-v2/

OpenStax textbook revisions, updates, and improvements - Why and how OpenStax revises textbooks

https://openstax.org/blog/openstax-textbook-revisions-updates-and-improvements

Springer Nature Transformative Open Access Agreement

https://bit.ly/3dak24w

Coronavirus resources (NIH)

https://www.nih.gov/coronavirus

Long read | Science needs to inform the public. That can’t be done solely in English …

https://bit.ly/37TDnFV

German Public Broadcaster ZDF Releases Dozens of Videos under CC Licenses:

https://bit.ly/2B4WLno

Landmark Transformative Agreement reached between Springer Nature and University of California

https://bit.ly/2Z2eyUs

Jisc and Universities UK call for publishers to reduce their fees to maintain access to essential teaching and learning materials

https://bit.ly/2Nk6RDH

COAR survey finds no large barriers for repository platforms in complying with Plan S

https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/plan_s_reposurvey/

What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement?

https://bit.ly/3dsL8DU

 

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Sharing Openly Licensed Content on Social Media: A Conversation with GLAM:

https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/15/sharing-openly-licensed-content-on-social-media/

OER Repositories & Platforms List

https://oer-obp.pubpub.org/pub/wac0y6kx/release/9

Critical Questions for Open Educational Practices

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01587919.2020.1775341

The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes

https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-cost-of-open-access-books-a-publisher-writes/