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Intellectual Property:

United States: Copyright Law's Impact On Popular Music

http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/454582/Copyright/Copyright+Laws+Impact+On+Popular+Music

Commission takes first steps to broaden access to online content and outlines its vision to modernise EU copyright rules

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6261_en.htm

5 Essential Facts About Fair Use

http://www.copyrightlaws.com/us/5-essential-facts-about-fair-use/

Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

Digital Rights Battles in 2015: NSA Reform, Net Neutrality, CISA and Beyond

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/2015-year-review

Monkey selfie case: judge rules animal cannot own his photo copyright

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/monkey-selfie-case-animal-photo-copyright

New copyright law in Poland heralds new era for libraries

http://www.eifl.net/news/new-copyright-law-poland-heralds-new-era-libraries

What a Mass Exodus at a Linguistics Journal Means for Scholarly Publishing

http://chronicle.com/article/What-a-Mass-Exodus-at-a/234066

Why Copyright Infringement Became Pop’s Big Problem, According to the ‘Blurred Lines’ Musicologist

http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/why-copyright-infringement-became-pops-big-problem.html#

 

Conference alerts:

Special And Disability Compliance In Higher Education

03 - 04 March, 2016 - Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg, South Africa

For information and registration, email:  sendile@melrosetraining.co.za

 

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2016

13-17 June 2016 – Zadar, Croatia

http://www.unizd.hr/