Intellectual Property:

Google Gets Total Victory Over Authors Guild: Book Scanning is Fair Use

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131114/09561525242/google-gets-total-victory-over-authors-guild-book-scanning-is-fair-use.shtml

Libraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case

http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/7975

Google Books : Fair Use and Public Benefits

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/2013/11/14/google-books-fair-use-and-public-benefits/

CEPIC submits EU antitrust complaint against Google Images

http://www.cepic.org/news/cepic_news/2013/11/cepic_submits_eu_antitrust_complaint_against_google_images

Irish Copyright Review Committee Report: Modernising Copyright

http://infojustice.org/archives/31120

http://www.djei.ie/publications/science/2013/CRC-Report.pdf

 

Conference alerts/calls for papers:

SPARC Open Access Meeting

2-4 March 2014 - Kansas City, MO,USA

http://sparc.arl.org/events/OA14

 

OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference

23 - 25 April 2014 - Slovenia

http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/2014/call-for-papers/

 

9th International Conference on Networked Learning in Higher Education, LifeLong Learning and Professional Development

7-9 April 2014 - Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/call/themes.htm

 

6th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitiatve Methods in LIbraries (QQML2014)

27 - 30 May 2014 - Istanbul, Turkey

http://www.isast.org/

 

SCECSAL Conference XXI

28 July - 1 August 2014, - Malawi

http://www.scecsal.org/conferences/scecsalxxi.html