Copyright & A2K Issues - 3 May 2011

3 May 2011 · Denise Nicholson

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From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 13:31:07 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 3 May 2011
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Intellectual Property

2011 Special 301 Report

http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/reports-and-publications/2011/
2011-special-301-report

New Zealand Green Party: "Why is Hollywood Writing our Copyright?"

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/93336/new-zealand-green-party-why-is-hollyw
ood-writing-our-copyright-law/
<http://www.zeropaid.com/news/93336/new-zealand-green-party-why-is-holly
wood-writing-our-copyright-law/>

Traditional Knowledge:

New Zealand prepared for traditional knowledge decision

http://www.managingip.com/Article/2814122/Managing-Copyright-Archive/New
-Zealand-prepares-for-traditional-knowledge-decision.html

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication

Neelie Kroes on Libraries, Access to Knowledge and Open Access

http://vimeo.com/22797810

Lessig at CERN: Scientific Knowledge Should Not Be Reserved for Academic
Elite

http://www.thelicensingplate.com/lessig-at-cern-scientific-knowledge-sho
uld-not-be-reserved-for-academic-elite/

Books for Africa and Course Hero Join Forces to Increase Literacy Abroad

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/04/21/prweb8330973
.DTL

Course Hero

http://www.coursehero.com

Representation and Recognition of Subject Repositories

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september10/adamick/09adamick.html

Mobile Technologies

Mobile technologies for libraries

http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/4/222.full

Upwardly Mobile in Africa

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_39/b4051054.htm

Mobile Trends 2020 Africa

http://www.slideshare.net/rudydw/mobile-trends-2020-africa

Open Educational Resources:

Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org

Math Playground

http://www.mathplayground.com

Open Educational Resources (Wikiversity)

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

Conference alert:

Open Repositories 2011

6-11 June, 2011 - AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center, Austin,
Texas

https://conferences.tdl.org/or/index.php/OR2011/OR2011main Open
Repositories 2011
<https://conferences.tdl.org/or/index.php/OR2011/OR2011main%20Open%20Rep
ositories%202011>

e-Learning

6th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and
Training

25-27 May 2011, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

http://www.elearning-africa.com/

Mobile Web in Africa 2011

http://www.mobilewebafrica.com/

http://www.mobileeastafrica.com/

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:31:04 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 24 May 2011
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

IFLA/CLM Draft Treaty on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for
Libraries and Archives

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/draft-treaty-on-copyright-exceptions
-and-limitations-for-libraries-and-archives

The stupidity of our copyright Laws is finally laid bare (UK)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/22/uk-intellectual-propert
y-law-cameron

Google can't be trusted with our books

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/26/google-books-videos

Full Court Press

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/23/university_presses_and_aca
demic_publishers_keeping_pressing_georgia_state_on_copyright_issues

EU Commission Sticks to Flawed Copyright Repression

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-commission-sticks-to-flawed-copyright-
repression

WIPO Conferences, Meetings and Seminars

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=22169

UK Government-Commissioned Reports Finds IP Framework a Barrier to
Innovative Industries, Recommends Changes

http://infojustice.org/archives/3442

Note about Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill (Traditional
Knowledge) (South Africa)

The Portfolio Committee is scheduled to meet as follows: 1, 8, 10 & 15
June 2011

Deliberations; 22 June 2011 - Consideration. (Please note: All dates
subject to change.)

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

IFLA's Statement on Open Access

http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/news/documents/ifla-statement-on-open-acces
s.pdf

The Future of the Library

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/the-future-of-the-librar
y.html

Internet rights are human rights, claims APC before the Human Rights
Council

http://www.apc.org/en/node/12371/

IR2gT: A Report Generation Tool for Institutional Repository

http://db.grinnell.edu/sigcse/iticse2011/program/viewAcceptedProposal.pd
f?sessionType=poster&sessionNumber=2

Traditional Knowledge:

Traditional Knowledge,Genetic Resources and Folklore/Traditional
Cultural Expressions

http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu May 26 12:01:25 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:01:25 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 26 May 2011
Message-ID: <799133C31EA6CE45B6085C6996225F16011CEE2B@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

Consumers' International IP Watch List 2011

http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/694498/ipwatchlist2011-engrv
sd.pdf

Brazil's Copyright Reform: Are We All Josef K.?

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/05/12/brazil%E2%80%99s-copyright-ref
orm-are-we-all-josef-k/

CLA Multinational Licence

http://www.cla.co.uk/licences/licences_available/multinationallicence

JISC IPR and Licensing Module

http://www.web2rights.com/SCAIPRModule/

WIPO Director General Francis Gurry welcomes the UK Independent Review
of IP and Growth

http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/news/2011/article_0025.html

New Reports on Tech Transfer,LDC needs

http://bit.ly/iTTaT9

Mike Tyson's Tattooer Sues Warner Bros.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/04/29/36203.htm

Google Music Might Not Let You Store Copyright-Infringing Music in the
Cloud

http://gizmodo.com/5800490/google-will-remove-your-music-from-its-cloud-
if-it-infringes-on-copyrights

Google in Hot Water with French Publishers

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/2046152/google_in_hot_water_with
_french_book_publishers/

Shipping Intangibles

http://aliquidnovi.org/shipping-intangibles/

Of Black Robes, Panda's Thumbs and Legal Anachronisms

http://aliquidnovi.org/of-black-robes-pandas-thumbs-and-legal-anachronis
ms/

Traditional Knowledge:

Directory of Indigenous Research Capability (NZ)

http://scholar.mai.ac.nz/

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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Email Fax: 0865533134
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu May 26 12:24:42 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:24:42 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 25 May 2011 (Africa
Day)
Message-ID: <799133C31EA6CE45B6085C6996225F16011CEE5C@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Celebrating Africa Day 2011: Free Access to Article Collection

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/articlecollections/AfricaDay2011/

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge (L. Lessig) (on
Vimeo)

http://vimeo.com/22633948

OA - African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development

http://www.ajfand.net/Volume11/No3/index3.html

African OER Health Network

http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer/HealthOERHome/tabid/151/Default.aspx

Mobile Technologies:

Mobile web usage highest in Asia and Africa
<http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/11/23/mobile-web-usage-highest-in-asia-an
d-africa/>

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/11/23/mobile-web-usage-highest-in-asia-and
-africa/

Internet Users Per Time Zone Chart

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/05/19/internet-users-per-time-zone-chart/

Why Email is Crucial to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/05/24/why-email-is-crucial-to-google-micro
soft-and-yahoo/

Mobile Devices Resources

http://biomedicallibrary.southalabama.edu/library/?q=mobile

M-Libraries Conferences Papers - 2007, 2009

http://www.usq.edu.au/m-libraries

(2011 papers will be available in the near future)

Mobile Technologies: Why Library Staff should be interested

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/seminars/bath-library-2011-03/

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri May 27 11:20:12 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:20:12 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 27 May 2011
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

Google abandons master-plan to archive the world's newspapers

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2011/05/19/google-abandons-mas
ter-plan-to-archive-the-world-s-newspapers.aspx

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

New challenges for digital scholarship and curation in the era of
ubiquitous computing - slidecast
<http://www.dkeats.com/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=ge
n13Srv30Nme10_60959_1305658916&userid=1563080430>

http://www.dkeats.com/

Authors' Rights

http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/Library/ScholarlyComm/AuthorsAddendumBr
ochure.aspx

Open Access Myths Busted

http://www.bc.edu/libraries/newsletter/2011spring/openaccess/index.html

Prezi presentations

www.Prezi.com

Mobile Technologies:

DIY Scholar

http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/getting_started/

Improving Cross-Cultural Awareness and Communication through Mobile
Technologies

http://www.irma-international.org/viewtitle/4057/

Mobile technology for Africa

http://www.mediaclubsouthafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar
ticle&id=2310:uct&catid=48:innovationnews&Itemid=115

Mobile technology use in Education

http://marketingwithnewtechnology.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/mobile-techno
logy-use-in-education/

Digital Library Symposium - Mobile Technologies ALA11

http://prezi.com/n9vjyiu_qzwz/digital-library-symposium-mobile-technolog
ies-ala11-alamw11dls/

How to Make an IPad e-Book in one weekend

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/computers/stories/how-to-make-an-ipad-eboo
k-in-one-weekend

Developing Education

http://www.mrkeenan.com/?cat=91

Hipstamatic IPhone App

http://hipstamaticapp.com/

Sharing Mobile Photos

http://picplz.com/

http://instagr.am/

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946

Email Fax: 0865533134
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon May 30 13:32:31 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:32:31 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 30 May 2011
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

Copyright Is Like QWERTY: Locked-In and Retrospective
<http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-is-like-qwerty-locked-in-and-retrospe
ctive-110424/>

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-is-like-qwerty-locked-in-and-retrospec
tive-110424/

Academic Publishers Attempting To Eliminate Fair Use At Universities
[Updated]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/

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