Copyright & A2K Issues - 2 June 2011

2 June 2011 · Denise Nicholson

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Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 2 June 2011
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Intellectual Property:

What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should

http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Dont-Know-About/127706/

SPARC Europe Interview Series on Copyright

http://www.sparceurope.org/resources/sparc-eu-materials/sparc-europe-int
erviews/SPARC_Eu_Interview_Series_PA_1_.pdf/view

Book Industry Bodies Consider DRM Again

http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2011/05/26/book-industry-bodies-consid
er-drm-again/

2 Universities Under the Legal Gun

http://chronicle.com/article/2-Universities-Under-the-Legal/127688/

The Next Battlefield 3D Printing

http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2011/05/09/the-next-battlefield-3d-pri
nting/

Music Forecast even Cloudier

http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2011/05/11/music-forecast-even-cloudie
r/

Cory Doctorow on copyright and piracy: 'Every pirate wants to be an
admiral' - video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/may/30/internet-pirac
y-cory-doctorow

New Front in Copyright Wars

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/05/31/new-front-in-the-copyright-
wars/

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Jun 2 10:56:22 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:56:22 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 2 June 2011 (part 2)
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2011

http://www.ifla.org/en/node/5630

The Ins and Outs of Lending e-Books at the Library

http://betwixttween.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/the-ins-and-outs-of-lending
-e-books-at-the-library/

Hungary: New constitution is serious threat to right to information

http://www.i-policy.org/2011/05/hungary-new-constitution-is-serious-thre
at-to-right-to-information.html

AFRICA: Continental forum for science launched

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110520203109848

Africa releases first survey of its own science

http://www.scidev.net/en/news/africa-releases-first-survey-of-its-own-sc
ience.html

Executive Summary

http://www.scidev.net/uploads/File/NEPAD_AIO_Executive_Summary_web-2.pdf

How the new Consumer Law protects you (South Africa)

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/how-the-new-consumer-law-protects
-you-1.1020996

Scholarly Exchange (self-publishing of journals)

http://www.scholarlyexchange.org/?gclid=COL_m5OSiKkCFYYOfAodMFIaqg

Google New Archive (still open)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Open access gets more readers, but not more citations (debatable)

http://www.scidev.net/en/news/open-access-gets-more-readers-but-not-more
-citations-1.html

http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2011/03/29/fj.11-183988.full.pdf+htm
l

ICTs and Mobile Technologies:

The Global Information Technology Report 2010/2011

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GITR_Report_2011.pdf

The Horizon Report 2011

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

How mobile devices are changing community information environments.

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2011/PIP-Local%20mobile%20
survey.pdf
<http://pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2011/PIP-Local%20mobile%20
survey.pdf>

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Jun 15 11:41:57 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:41:57 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 13 June 2011
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Hi,

Apologies for not sending you my information service lately. I have
been on sick leave and I was also away at a conference in Australia.

Regards,

Denise

Intellectual Property:

How Out of Control Copyright Law is Keeping Millions of Books & Images
Away from Scholars

http://bit.ly/kTMgOv

Free as in law (learning tomorrow)

http://aliquidnovi.org/learning-tommorrow/

http://aliquidnovi.org/free-as-in-law-learning-tomorrow-2/

Research Libraries, Publishers Stake Out Position on International ILL

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891002-264/research_libraries_publ
ishers_stake_out.html.csp

White House to Decide whether Treaty for the Blind Moves Forward

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/treaty-for-the-blind_b_876804.h
tml

US Intellectual Proerpty Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel's
Comments at the World Copyright Summit

http://infojustice.org/archive/3725

Possible Treaties Brewing at WIPO Committee on Copyright

http://bit.ly/mulyDy

New Brussels Lobbying Group Communia Works For A Stronger Public Domain

http://bit.ly/kFlYQW

Bloggers Beware There's Copyright in That Content

http://www.polity.org.za/article/bloggers-beware-theres-copyright-in-tha
t-content-2011-06-14

Confusion over Copyright Law Vexes Educators

http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/06/confusion-over-copyright-law-vexes-edu
cators/

No More Pirates in Africa?

http://aliquidnovi.org/no-more-pirates-in-africa/

Will the UK Take its Digital Opportunity?

http://aliquidnovi.org/will-the-uk-take-its-digital-opportunity/

Food Security, Climate Change and IP Rights

http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2011/03/article_0001.html

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Jun 15 12:11:32 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:11:32 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 June 2011
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Regards,

Denise

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Is Open Access the Future of Academic Publishing?

http://www8.open.ac.uk/platform/blogs/society-matters/open-access-the-fu
ture-academic-publishing

Establishing an Institutional Repository: A UNISA Case Study (South
Africa)

http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/4297/22_D-S-_Nkosi-2.pdf?s
equence=1

10 Fold increase in Open Access publishing during the last decade

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/plos-tii061311.php

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue

http://infojustice.org/archives/3652

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.2
7_en.pdf

Old Dogs and New Tricks Law and Digital Curation

http://www.bileta.ac.uk/Document%20Library/1/Old%20Dogs%20and%20New%20Tr
icks%20-%20Law%20and%20Digital%20Curation.pdf

Egypt: Court fines Mubarak and Vodafone for communications blackout

http://www.apc.org/en/node/12427/

Sometimes a business model hides in plain sight.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/06/14/

'A Second Front' and 'Who Pays for Enforcement?'

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/

Strengthening Information Literacy Interventions- Creative approaches to
teaching and learning

http://blds.ids.ac.uk/global_projects/BLDS%20Botswana%20Report%20compres
sed.pdf

The transition from digital broadcasting in Africa

http://digmig.apc.org/

Practical Open Sources Software for Libraries

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue66/rafiq-rvw/

When talking about the library remember N3PE: an advocacy talking point
framework for academic libraries

http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com

Libraries face growing demand for ebooks, and complicated rules about
using them.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/news/4829757/story.html

eIFL's Annual Report 2010

http://www.eifl.net/eifl-2010-annual-report

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

Copyright Services Librarian,
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The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
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Email Fax: 0865533134
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Jun 15 12:24:32 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:24:32 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 15 June 2011
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Regards,

Denise

Traditional Knowledge:

WIPO TK Resources

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

TK Bulletin

http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2011/06/

Open Learning Resources:

YouTube Gives Users Creative Commons Licensing Option: Creates a
Creative Commons Library

http://infojustice.org/archives/3646

Open Learning (Open University of Israel)

http://www.openu.ac.il/english4u/learning-resources.html

Open Learning Resources Network (Wiki)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLRN_%E2%80%93_Open_Learning_Resources_N
etwork

School of Open Learning Home Page

http://www.stuffspec.com/publicfiles/School_Of_Open_Learning_Home_Page.h
tml

What are Open Textbooks?

http://cnx.org/content/m15226/latest/

OER University

http://wikieducator.org/OER_university

Mobile Technologies:

M-Libraries on the Move

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/speight-rvw

YouTube Edu

http://www.youtuhe.com/education?b=400

Foursquare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare_%28social_network%29

Xtranormal Tutorials

http://www.Xtranormal.com

iTunes U

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u

Dropbox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29

Gowalla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowalla

Nature.Com Apps

http://www.nature.com/mobileapps/?gclid=CKmtoZnWt6kCFYINfAodegvm8Q

Free Educational Apps

http://www.getjar.com/mobile-more-education-applications/

Conference/Seminar Alert:

Free Public Seminar: Making Broadband Accessible for All

22 June 2011 - PDH Building, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa

For information: Lynelle.Potgieter at vodacom.co.za

Denise Nicholson (Mrs)

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Jun 22 13:44:20 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:44:20 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 22 June 2011
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Access Copyright's Desperation: From Fair Dealing Allows Everything to
It's Too Risky to Rely Upon

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5865/125/

http://www.eifl.net/copyright-for-librarians

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

The History of Social Networking

http://mashable.com/2011/01/24/the-history-of-social-media-infographic/

Is Internet Access A Human Right? The Implications for the Rules of
Access

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5873/135/

Open Access, Copyright Wars and the Trojan Horse

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/06/15/open-access-copyright
-wars-and-the-trojan-horse/

SPARC Europe's OA Suggestions to EC: Part Sense, Part Nonsense, Part
Irrelevance

http://bit.ly/sparc2eu

The Zimbabwean Institutional Repositories (Report)

http://www.inasp.info/media/www/documents/2011-ZW-Repositories.pdf

DataCite (Data Repositories)

http://datacite.org/repolist

Citing Digital Scholarly Publications

https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/scholar/resources0.html

Traditional Knowledge:

Traditional Indigenous Knowledge System study launched (Botswana)

http://bit.ly/mpEHbN

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Jun 27 11:26:10 2011
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:26:10 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 27 June 2011
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FYI,

Regards,

Denise

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