Intellectual Property:

Academics to PricewaterhouseCoopers: You Got It Wrong on the Benefits of Fair Use

http://infojustice.org/

eIFL Calls for Ambitious Copyright Reform in Europe

http://infojustice.org/archives/35903

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Google Book-Scanning Case

http://www.gigalaw.com/2016/04/18/supreme-court-wont-hear-google-book-scanning-case/

Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/fair-use-prevails-as-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-copyright-case/

Rational Faith: The Utility of Fairness in Copyright

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2759513

Say Nay to the Neighbouring Right!

http://kluwercopyrightblog.com/2016/04/14/say-nay-to-the-neighbouring-right/

Canadian Copyright Bill for the Blind in Need of Fine Tuning

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/04/canadian-copyright-bill-for-the-blind-in-need-of-fine-tuning/

Copyright reform: libraries not proxies for commercial interests

http://www.eifl.net/news/libraries-not-proxies-commercial-interests-copyright-reforms

About Copyright Trolls

https://wits-ac-za.libapps.com/libguides/admin_c.php?g=145331&p=952533

Court Correctly Interprets Creative Commons Licenses

http://us.creativecommons.org/archives/1152

South African Minister Raises Eyebrows Over Patents

http://allafrica.com/stories/201604191431.html

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/apr/18/why-academic-journals-expensive

You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/

Download 67000 historic maps (D. Rumsey map collection)

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/download-67000-historic-maps-in-high-resolution-from-the-wonderful-david-rumsey-map-collection.html

 

Open Educational Resources:

Open Educational Resources – Tools for Teaching/Learning

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/c.php?g=145371&p=1349582

Free, high-quality education resources from the National Science Digital Library

https://opensource.com/education/16/4/national-science-digital-library

National Science Digital Library

https://nsdl.oercommons.org/

Free Online Literature Courses

http://www.openculture.com/literature_free_courses

Free Online Economics Courses

http://www.openculture.com/economics_free_courses