Intellectual Property:

European Commission Urged To Fix EU Law Before Addressing IPR Protections In Third Countries

http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/03/09/european-commission-urged-to-fix-eu-law-before-addressing-ipr-protections-in-third-countries/

Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed - Copyright policy and the right to science and culture (check No. A/HRC/28/57)

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session28/Pages/ListReports.aspx

Major copyright law reform on the EU Agenda

http://www.alcs.co.uk/ALCS-News/2015/January-2015/ALCS-News-Bulletin-January-2015/EU-copyright-rules-maladapted-to-the-Internet,-upc :  Report:  https://pub.juliareda.eu/copyright_evaluation_report.pdf

Copyright Notice: Knitting and Sewing Patterns (UK)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/399646/Copyright_Notice_4-2015.pdf

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Beyond Beall’s List – Better Understanding Predatory Publishers

http://m.crln.acrl.org/content/76/3/132.full.pdf

Science Publishing – Sharing Articles via Academic Networks

http://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2015/03/05/science-publishing-sharing-articles-academic-networks

Elsevier Appears To Be Slurping Up Open Access Research, And Charging People To Access It

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150307/17154930246/elsevier-appears-to-be-slurping-up-open-access-research-charging-people-to-access-it.shtml

Directory of Open Access Journals Introduces New Standards to Help Community Address Quality Concerns

http://sparc.arl.org/blog/doaj-introduces-new-standards

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

New!  African Legal Centre

http://africanlegalcentre.org/

 

Conference Alerts:

Fordham Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference

8-9 April 2015 0 Cambridge, UK

http://fordhamipconference.com/

 

COAR-SPARC Conference 2015 – Connecting research results, bridging communities, opening scholarship

15-16 April 2015 – University of Porto, Portugal

https://indico.cern.ch/event/369875/

 

ABC Copyright Conference 2015

4-5 May 2015 – Winnipeg, Canada

http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/abccopyright/index/pages/view/abccopyright2015