Intellectual Property:

WIPO: Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain (Séverine Dusollier)

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/mdocs/en/cdip_7/cdip_7_inf_2.pdf

ISPs to stop you from pirating?

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/45892-isps-to-stop-you-from-pirating.html

eBooks not proving to be bestsellers in SA

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=171943

Hathi Trust, Library Associations Dispute Author’s Guild Motion

http://bit.ly/JMDwtF

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Will An Institutional Repository Hurt – Calming the Faculty Fear

http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/spectrum/Vol-16/No-6/institutional-repository.pdf

New Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (OA)

http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/

Open Access Publishing: What Authors Want

http://crl.acrl.org/content/73/2/182.full.pdf+html

Defining Platinum Open Access

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/05/08/defining-platinum-open-access/

Encyclopedia of Life (OA)

http://nmnh.typepad.com/100years/2012/05/the-encyclopedia-of-life-global-access-to-knowledge-about-life-on-earth-.html

Libraries set out to own their own e-Books

http://boingboing.net/2012/05/10/libraries-set-out-to-own-their.html

Muscle from Brussels as open access gets an €80bn boost

]http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419949&c=1

 

Mobile Technologies & Social Media

Is Social Media Making Us ‘Curate’ Our Virtual Selves?

http://bit.ly/J018bR

 

Traditional Knowledge:

WIPO Blasted for Misappropriation  of Indigenous Knowledge Resources

http://bit.ly/LVcpNP

 

Conference alert:

8th International Data Curation Conference,

January 14-16, 2013, Amsterdam

http://www.cni.org/news/8th-international-data-curation-conference/