Copyright & A2K Issues - 30 May 2013

Intellectual Property:

Obama's trade reps and the MPAA are killing a copyright treaty that gives rights to disabled people

http://boingboing.net/2013/05/26/obamas-trade-reps-and-the-mp.html

World Health Assembly: IP Considerations Play Key Role In Final Outcomes

http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/05/28/world-health-assembly-ip-considerations-play-key-role-in-final-outcomes/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5

Conference alerts:

Indigenous Research Committee 2013

30 June 2013 – 3 July 2013 -  Hamilton,Aotearoa (New Zealand)

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/rangahau/hemanawawhenua

Sustainable International Leadership in Indigenous Research: pathways, potential and practice

9-10 July 2013 – James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Contact: felecia.watkin@jcu.edu.au

IFLA WLIC 2013 Congress

17-23 August 2013, Singapore

http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79

Programme now available at : http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79/programme-and-proceedings

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2013

19 -21 August 2013 - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City

http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2013/

1^stConference of the American Indigenous Research Association

IDC – 6^thSA Innovation Summit

27-29 August 2013 – Sandton, South Africa

http://innovationsummit.co.za/2013/

ETD 2013

23-26 September 2013 – Hong Kong

http://lib.hku.hk/etd2013/registration.html

Conference of the American Indigenous Research Association will be held October 11-12, 2013, in the Arlee-Charlo Theater at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana.

11-12 October, 2013 - Pablo, Montana, USA (free registration)

http://americanindigenousresearchassociation.org/conference/