Copyright & A2K Issues - 1 April 2009

13 March 2018 · Denise Nicholson

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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:27:15 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 1 April 2009
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FYI,

Regards

Denise

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Issues affecting persons with sensory-disabilities:-

Authors have lost the Plot in Kindle battle

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/31/cory-doctorow-kindle

Adobe in Wonderland

http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,22914,00.html

Intellectual Property and Legal Issues:-

The Global Debate on Enforcement of Intellectual Property in Developing
Countries

http://ictsd.net/i/publications/42762/

Should universities break copyright law?

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/03/should-universi
ties-break-copyright-law.html

Universities as copyright warriors

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/03/universities-as
-copyright-warriors.html

Obama trade officials promise through review of transparency policies

http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/03/20/ustr2review-transparency/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10195547-38.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlin
esArea.0

US Trade Team Responds To Protectionist Pressure In Reports On Trading
Partners

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/03/31/us-trade-team-responds-to-prot
ectionist-pressure-in-reports-on-trading-partners/

Postmortem for the Geneva Mini-Ministerial: Where does TRIPS go from
here

http://ictsd.net/downloads/2009/02/abbot_final2.pdf

International Comparative Legal Guide to Telecommunications Law and
Regulations 2009 (2nd edition).

http://www.iclg.co.uk/khadmin/Publications/pdf/2297.pdf

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:-

German petition against Google Books and OA

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/german-petition-against-googl
e-books.html

Publishers denounce JISC open access report

http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2238083/publishers-de
nounce-jisc-open

UK Government backs Open Source

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm

Internet access to double in next five years

http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/the_future/internet_access_to_double_in_next
_five_years.html

Text is forever. Paper books are not.
<http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/31/text-is-forever-paper-books-are-not/
>

http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/31/text-is-forever-paper-books-are-not/

"On the Record" - A Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of
News <http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinOnTheRecord.asp?issID=47>

http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinOnTheRecord.asp?issID=47

World Newspaper Archives Update

http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinWNAUpdate.asp?issID=47

Government of Canada Provides Open Access to UFO X-Files

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/03/prweb2264574.htm

The Open Knowledge Definition

http://opendefinition.org/

Open Shakespeare

http://www.openshakespeare.org/

Public Domain Calculators

http://www.publicdomainworks.net/

Conference alerts:-

United Nations World Conference 2009

World Partnership Conference on Education for Sustainable Development.

"Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade"

15-21 April, 2009, London, UK.

Contact email: conference2009 at un.org

Online EDUCA Berlin 2009

Global E-Learning Conference for the Corporate, Education and Public
Service Sectors

2-4 December 2009, Berlin, Germany

www.online-educa.com

Denise Rosemary Nicholson (Mrs.)
Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929
Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright
+and+Related+Issues.htm

http://kim.wits.ac.za <http://kim.wits.ac.za/>

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FYI,

Regards

Denise
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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:-

Authors' Guide to UK funders' policies on Open Access

http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/libraryintelligencer/2009/03/30/authors-guid
e-to-uk-funders-policies-on-open-access/

Publishers allowing the deposition of their published version/PDF in
Institutional Repositories

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html

Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals secured

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=090401

Scholarly Communication in Crisis?

http://www.wiu.edu/library/info/news/news_web.sphp?id=527

Dramatic Growth of Open Access. March 31, 2009

http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/03/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-m
arch-31.html

LIFE.com Launches Giving Consumers Access to the Largest Professional
Photography Collection Online

http://www.cameratown.com/news/news.cfm?id=7446

Munich Court Lifts Ban on Reprints of Nazi-era Newspapers

http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_printcontent/0,,4127110,00.html

Scholarly Internet Resources

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

OpenJournals Publishing

http://openjournals.net/

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