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Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 2 March 2011
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Intellectual Property:
World Blind Union suspends participation in WIPO & EU Stakeholder
discussions, pending agreement at WIPO on legal framework
http://keionline.org/node/1082
Long Week Ahead For WIPO Experts Considering Treaty on IP and Genetic
Resources
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/02/28/long-week-ahead-for-wipo-exper
ts-considering-treaty-on-ip-and-genetic-resources/
Traditional Knowledge:
After Folklore, Traditional Knowledge Makes Steps Toward WIPO Treaty
Text
http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/this-week-in-review-wipo-igc-
working-groups-make-progress-on-tk-continue-with-genetic-resources/
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Open Access: Who Calls the Shots Now?
http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2011/02/open-access-who-calls-shots-no
w.html
African Platform on Access to Information
The eBook User's Bill of Rights
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/02/28/the-ebook-user%E2%80%99s-bi
ll-of-rights/
FCForum Declaration: Sustainable Models for Creativity v1.0 (PDF)
<http://fcforum.net/files/sustainable-creativity/Fcf_Decla-eng_1-0.pdf>
http://fcforum.net/files/sustainable-creativity/Fcf_Decla-eng_1-0.pdf
One Laptop Per Child and the African Union Commit to Providing Laptops
to Primary School Students Throughout Africa
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110216005342/en/Laptop-Child-Afr
ican-Union-Commit-Providing-Laptops
Open Attribute - Give Credit Where Credit is Due
Intech Open Access Publisher
How do we Measure the Effectiveness of Institutional Repositories?
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/how-do-we-measure-the-effecti
veness-of-institutional-repositories/
Keep Your Copyrights
http://www.keepyourcopyrights.org/
The Pitfalls of e-Book Buying: What to Look Out for Before You Purchase
http://www.pcworld.com/article/219335/the_pitfalls_of_ebook_buying_what_
to_look_out_for_before_you_purchase.html
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Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 9 March 2011
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Intellectual Property:
New research on commercial copyright infringement in South Africa
http://aliquidnovi.org/new-research-on-commercial-copyright-infringement
-in-south-africa/
Review of Royalty Distribution by Collecting Societies (South Africa)
http://aliquidnovi.org/review-of-royalty-distribution-by-collecting-soci
eties/
Librarians launch boycott in battle over e-books
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-03-08-libraries08_ST_N.htm
HarperCollins responds to angered librarians
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/harpercollins-responds-to-angered-librari
ans/
HarperCollins makes changes to library e-book sales and lending
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/index.cfm?srch=3&postid=1251
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Making the most of open content: why we need to understand use
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/03/07/opencontentstories/
EC launches inquiry on price-fixing on e-books by European publishers
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=12409&pic
kUpBatch=1640
Illustrating of the potential for savings with a global shift to open
access
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/illustrating-of-potential-fo
r-savings.html
Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/lisa-klarr/planned-obsolescence-interview-ka
thleen-fitzpatrick
Google News Archive Search
http://news.google.com/archivesearch
Open Learning Resources:
The University of Nottingham opens up its teaching to the world
http://media-newswire.com/release_1144258.html
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Mar 11 09:46:20 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:46:20 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 10 March 2011
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Intellectual Property:
Even WIPO Realizing That Copyright Law May Have Gone Too Far
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110310/03032313426/even-wipo-realizin
g-that-copyright-law-may-have-gone-too-far.shtml
Canadian Funded Study Provides New Insights Into Global Piracy Claims
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5675/125/
World Blind Union Won't Be Sidetracked in Quest for Treaty on Reading
Access
Author's Rights - Copyright Tool Box
http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/
Medicine Patent Pool
http://www.medicinespatentpool.org/
Traditional Knowledge:
Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural
Expressions/Folklore
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Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 11 March 2011
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Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Research Funders' Open Access Policies
http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Service/Publish-and-register-in-DiVA/Open-Access-
Publishing/Research-funders-OA-policies/
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
Growing knowledge: Access to research in east and southern African
universities
http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/sites/default/files/arc_pub_africanconnect
ivity_theassociationofcommonwealthunis_0.pdf
Open Access and the Mission of Research Libraries
http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12
8&Itemid=259
Paying Open Access Publishing Fees
http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26
5&catid=79&Itemid=256
Open Access, Knowledge and Democracy
Open Access Africa 2010 (Presentations now available online)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/openaccessafrica
Open Educational Resources:
Free Textbooks and e-Books (can download)
http://www.friedbeef.com/7-best-places-to-download-free-textbooks/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-websites-to-download-free-e-books/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks
The Internet Archive - OER
http://www.archive.org/details/education
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:03:06 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 March 2011
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Intellectual Property:
Can South African Internet Service Providers be held liable for allowing
subscribers to access foreign sites?
Review of Royalty Distribution by Collecting Societies (South Africa)
http://aliquidnovi.org/review-of-royalty-distribution-by-collecting-soci
eties
Why is the South African Government investigating collecting societies?:
http://aliquidnovi.org/why-is-the-south-african-government-investigating
-collecting-societies/
Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/son-of-acta-meet-the-nex
t-secret-copyright-treaty.ars
The Rio Papers (Copyright issues)
http://copysouth.org/portal/theriopapers
IP Enforcement Permeates ICANN, US Internet Policy
DRM for Broadband Video
http://www.abiresearch.com/research/1007041-DRM+for+Broadband+Video
Cory Doctorow: How free translates to business survival
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12701664
Cory Doctorow: DRM is no friend of business
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12702081
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Demise of the Big Deal
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/03/demise-of-big-deal.html
ROARMAP : Registry of OA Repository Material Archiving Policies
Things you should know about Open Textbook Publishing
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7070.pdf
6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/6-top-tech-trends-on-the-horizon-
for-education/29581
The Horizon Report 2011
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf
Open Educational Resources;
Open Educational Resources for Development
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50709405/Open-Educational-Resources-for-Develo
pment
VUMA Student Portal
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:50:24 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 16 March 2011
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Intellectual Property:
Publisher limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/business/media/15libraries.html?emc=et
a1
Copyright System Must 'Adapt or Perish', WIPO Director Says
HarperCollins snubs Libraries with Self-Destructing e-Books
http://blog.laptopmag.com/harpercollins-snubs-libraries-with-self-destru
cting-ebooks
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication
Flatworld Knowledge
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
Data Mining and Repositories
http://rcsproject.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/data-mining-and-repositories/
Academic Reference Manager
Plagiarism
German scientists outraged in defence minister plagiarism affair -
February 28, 2011
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/02/german_scientists_ou
traged_in.html
Traditional Knowledge:
Traditional Knowledge: Is Perpetual Protection a Good thing?
http://law.unh.edu/assets/pdf/idea-vol50-no4-oseitutu.pdf
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