Intellectual Property:
TF1 loses copyright battle against YouTube
http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.aspx?g=c6dc98c4-984b-4484-a968-9509f7d27c28
A New Chapter for eBooks
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120817-a-new-chapter-for-ebooks/1
What Google's New Stance on Copyright Infringement Means to Your Business
http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/224214?cam=Dev&ctp=Carousel&cdt=13&cdn=224214
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Hat Tip: David Weinberger interviews open access advocate Peter Suber
CLOCKSS Archive Is Pleased to Announce the Participation of Five New Publishers in Its Digital Preservation Archive
http://www.clockss.org/clockss/News#Duke
Persons with Disabilities:
IFLA Manifesto for Libraries serving Persons with a Print Disability
Seminar on Disabilities and Human Rights - 31 August 2012, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa
To attend, ring Gilbert Mamorobela: Tel: 012 4415648 / Fax: 086 273 7678
or E-mail: mamormg@unisa.ac.za before 24 August 2012.
Digitisation and Digital Curation:
Understanding Digital Curation
Plagiarism:
Classroom cheating in the digital age
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2012/08/classroom_cheating_in_the_digital_age.html
The spectre of plagiarism haunting Europe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/18962349
Conference alerts:
ETD 2013: Asian Values, Western Thought, World Treasure!
16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations -
23-26 September 2013 – Hong Kong
WHO, WIPO and WTO events for rest of 2012