Rio+Summit 2012

Rio+ 20 Summit

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=262842&sid=2812932

 

Intellectual Property:

Rio+20 Climate Talks Finish With Little IP; Flexibilities Under Fire

http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/06/25/rio20-climate-talks-advance-with-little-ip-flexibilities-under-fire/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

A Bigger Meaner Patent War

http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/06/25/a-bigger-meaner-patent-war/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

Wanted: a Rosetta Stone for data, says Cerf

http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2012/jun/Rosetta-stone-cerf.cfm

Is the Extension of Exchange Control Regulations to IP Unlawful?

http://www.webberwentzel.com/wwb/content/en/ww/ww-press-releases?oid=36270&sn=Detail-2011&pid=32711

Copyright for Librarians Launches in Romanian

http://www.eifl.net/news/copyright-librarians-launches-romanian

The Enterprise Strikes Back

http://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/167901121/security/attacks-breaches/240002672/the-enterprise-strikes-back.html

Renewal Version of Revised Draft Basic Proposal for the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (SCCR/15/2 Rev.) 

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=207943http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=207943

 

Access Issues affecting Persons with Disabilities:

National Federation of the Blind Tells Secretary of State Clinton that Kindle Does Not Meet Needs of the Blind/Print-Disabled

http://www.infodocket.com/2012/06/18/national-federation-of-the-blind-tells-secretary-of-state-clinton-that-kindle-does-not-meet-needs-of-the-blindprint-disabled/

Resources for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons – http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired

Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons - http://libguides.wits.ac.za/deaf_and_hardofhearing

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

New Theology Review goes open access with the library as publisher

http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/new-theology-review-goes-open-access-with-the-library-as-publisher/

 

Conference Alert:

SARIMA Conference :

Southern African Research & Innovation Management Association

5th - 7th September 2012 - Port Elizabeth, South Africa

http://www.sarimaconference.co.za/