Intellectual Property:

EU Wrestles With Procedure For Signing Marrakesh Treaty For Visually Impaired

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/04/03/eu-wrestles-with-procedure-for-signing-marrakesh-treaty-for-visually-impaired/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

Library Clams Copyright Infringement Over Harmless Tweet

http://www.business2community.com/social-buzz/library-claims-copyright-infringement-harmless-tweet-0820219#!CIAV2

Elseviergate today: LIBER says to Libraries: DONT sign Elsevier’s click-through licence for Content Mining (TDM)

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/29/elseviergate-today-liber-says-to-libraries-dont-sign-elseviers-click-through-licence-for-content-mining-tdm/

Shame on Nature Academic Journal Demanding Researchers to Waive their Own OA Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140329/07301426726/shame-nature-academic-journal-demanding-researchers-waive-their-own-open-access-policy.shtml

 

Traditional Knowledge:

Protection of Folklore in Draft International Instrument under Discussion at WIPO

http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/04/02/protection-of-folklore-in-draft-international-instrument-under-discussion-at-wipo/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

The Exploitative Economics of Academic Publishing

http://footnote1.com/the-exploitative-economics-of-academic-publishing/

The Cost of Open Access Publishing: a Progress Report

http://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2014/03/28/the-cost-of-open-access-publishing-a-progress-report/

Nature Partner Journals, a new brand of open access journals

http://www.nature.com/press_releases/nature-partner-journals.html

Student Embargoes within Institutional Repositories: Faculty Early Transparency Concerns

http://jlsc-pub.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=jlsc

Liberal Arts College Libraries Take on Publishers over eBooks

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/liberal-arts-college-libraries-take-on-publishers-over-ebooks/2012348.article

Does Creative Commons Make Sense?

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/04/02/does-creative-commons-make-sense/