Intellectual Property:

Quick Update on WIPO SCCR 24 Meeting on The Treaty for People with Disabilities

http://keionline.org/node/1469

Chris Friend of World Blind Union asks Obama to support WIPO Treaty for Disabilities (YouTube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP4B5Umq6Ls

Supreme Court Shakes the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6596/135/

Why the European Commission's Assurances on ACTA & CETA Don't Add Up

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6594/125/

MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/mit-economist-heres-how-copyright-laws-impoverish-wikipedia/259970/

Inflexible: Copyright Office Puts a Halt on Copyrights for Yoga Sequence

http://www.ipbrief.net/2012/07/21/inflexible-copyright-office-puts-a-halt-on-copyrights-for-yoga-sequences/

Tor eBooks are now DRM Free

http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/tor-ebooks-are-now-drm-free/

How DRM Hurts eBook Sales

http://blog.bookbaby.com/2012/07/how-drm-hurts-ebook-sales/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Introduction to Institutional Repositories

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Repository

Repositories not just about publications anymore

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/07/repositories-not-just-about-publications-any-more/

Science, data and the public

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/20/data-science-public-open-knowledge?newsfeed=true

Bringing data into the open repository fold

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/blog/bringing-data-open-repository-fold

How Google is Becoming an Extension of your Mind

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57470853-93/how-google-is-becoming-an-extension-of-your-mind/

 

Conference Alert:

First National Open Access Conference

October 24, 2012 – October 25, 2012, Botswana

http://www.ub.bw/ocs/index.php/noac/noac2012