Copyright & A2K Issues - 3 August 2009

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Intellectual property:

Intellectual property dispute could close Skype

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2247087/ebay-warns-skype-fold

DRM is Failure

http://thefuturebuzz.com/2009/08/01/drm/

Authors' Rights:

Open Access and Authors' Rights Management : A Possibility for Theology?

http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2009/07/26/kevin-l-smith-on-
open-access-and-authors-rights-management-a-possibility-for-theology/

Authors' Rights - Tout de Suite

http://www.archive.org/details/AuthorsRightsToutDeSuite

Traditional Knowledge:

Traditional Knowledge - Aladdin's lessons?

http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2009/08/traditional-knowldege-aladdins-lesso
ns.html

Maasai seek copyright protection for songs, dances

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Maasai+seek+copyright+protect
ion+song+dances/1840913/story.html

Open Educational Resources:

Free Home School Online Resources

http://householddiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/incredible-long-list-of-free-
homeschool.html

OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources

http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html

25 Tools : A Toolbox for Learning Professionals (2009 version)

http://c4lpt.co.uk/25Tools/

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Institutional Repositories - Tout de Suite

http://www.archive.org/details/InstitutionalRepositoriesToutDeSuite

List of Business Tools

http://lisasimpkins-education.blogspot.com/2009/08/list-of-business-tool
s.html

Transforming Scholarly Communication

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scholarly/index.html

Conference alerts:

Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytellilng for Children

19-21 August 2009

University of South Africa Main Campus, Pretoria, South Africa

Website: http://www.childlit.org.za/conference.html.

Email: vdwaltb at unisa.ac.za

5th Annual SANGONet "ICTS for Civil Society" Conference

14-15 October 2009 (Johannesburg and 20-21 October 2009 (Cape Town)

For info: info at sangonet.org.za.

4th Annual Reading Association of South Africa Conference

Facilitating the literacy challenge: foundations for literacy and beyond

16-18 October 2009

Wits School of Education, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa

For more information: shalati.mabunda at wits.ac.za

The Future is Now: New Roles and Relationshiops for Academic Libraries

16-18 May 2010

University of Johannesburg, Library & Information Centre, Johannesburg,
South Africa

Website: http://www.uj.ac.za/Default.aspx?TabId=15656 or email:
anettej at uj.ac.za

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

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Aug 5 15:26:58 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:26:58 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] FW: Copyright & A2K Issues - 4 August 2009
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FYI,

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Denise

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Intellectual Property:

ALA 2009: Academic libraries urged to consider maverick models of publishing

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6671431.html

Australia set to push on with repeal of importation restrictions

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/91140-page.html

WIPO High-level Forum Highlights Opportunities and Challenges for LDCs

http://ictsd.net/i/news/bridgesweekly/51840/

Indigenous Community goes Digital with High-Tech Support from WIPO

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2009/article_0030.html

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

IFLA Government Libraries Section Newsletter

http://www.ifla.org/files/government-libraries/newsletters/july-2009.pdf

Preserving newspapers for the future.

http://sedgwick2graham.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/preserving-newspapers-fo...

OSCON 2009 - Open Source Convention San Jos?, USA - A Report

http://kim.wits.ac.za/index.php?module=news&action=viewstory&id=gen11Srv...

First International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-1)

http://kim.wits.ac.za/index.php?module=news&action=viewstory&id=gen11Srv...

Seven Reasons why we need Net Neutrality

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/seven-reasons-why-we-need_b_2...

25 Excellent Web Apps for Searching, Bookmarking, and Browsing Open Courseware

http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2009/25-excellent-web-apps-for-searchi...

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

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Aug 7 15:12:46 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:12:46 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 7 August 2009
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FYI,

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Denise

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Intellectual Property:

The South African Open Copyright Review Final Report

http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/intellectual-property-rig
hts/projects/report-sa-copyright-act

The South African Open Copyright Review Final Report (blog)

http://aliquidnovi.org/2009/08/07/the-south-african-open-copyright-revie
w-final-report-is-online/

http://www.surffoundation.nl/Auteursrechten/en/Pages/Default.aspx

http://www.surffoundation.nl/Auteursrechten/en/surfenauteursrecht/Pages/
Default.aspx

The Next Big Headache for Digital Publishers

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-the-next-big-headache-for-digital-pub
lishers/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

GreyNet (for grey literature)

http://www.greynet.org/opensiglerepository.html

Social Networks and Managing Knowledge

http://dezine.netsoftcreative.com/index.php/2009/08/06/social-networks-a
nd-managing-knowledge/

Broadcasting Policy & Regulatory Trends (Course):

LINK Centre at Wits University

Certificate Course: Broadcasting Policy & Regulatory Trends (PADM 7004)

24-28 August 2009

For more information: http://link.wits.ac.za/training/tc6.html

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Aug 17 10:37:22 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:37:22 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 17 August 2009 (part
1)
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FYI,

Regards

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Google Book Settlement - a set of links

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6650383.html

A guide for the perplexed (part II): The amended Google-Michigan
Agreement

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/google-michigan-12jun09.pdf

The audacity of the Google Book Search Settlement

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/the-audacity-of-the-googl
_b_255490.html

http://www.springerlink.com/content/d68378548316j886/fulltext.pdf

Choosing between Reform and Revolution

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/

WIPO Launches On-line Tool to Facilitate Access to Targeted Scientific
Information

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2009/article_0025.html

Legislation Is Restricting Internet Access, Expert Warns (UK)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090814192853.htm

Open Learning Resources:

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Trail, and Learning 2.0

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume43/M
indsonFireOpenEducationtheLon/162420

Folksemantic (OER)

http://folksemantic.com/

The Transformative Potential of Open Educational Resources (OER)

http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/libraryintelligencer/2009/08/04/the-transfor
mative-potential-of-open-educational-resources-oer/

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Aug 17 10:39:10 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:39:10 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 17 August 2009 (part
2)
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FYI,

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Denise

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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

The Grid (mobile phone social network)

http://www.brandchannel.com/features_profile.asp?pr_id=451

The Antaeus column: does the ''open access'' advantage exist? A
librarian's perspective

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet;jsessionid=6A73
2ECA10D33D853F6B3DE6C0B67FE4?contentType=Article&Filename=/published/eme
raldfulltextarticle/pdf/0350580701.pdf

Open Access: a giant leap towards bridging health inequities

http://publishopenaccess.blogspot.com/2009/08/open-access-giant-leap-tow
ards-bridging.html

As textbook costs stack up, interest grows in e-books

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6574256.html

Sony adopts industry standard for ebooks

http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2886&iArticle
Id=5124942

How the Humanities are different

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/08/how-humanities-are-different.
html

Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community
Stopped Worrying about Journals

and Learned to Love Repositories

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0906/0906.5418.pdf

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Aug 19 13:17:08 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:17:08 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 19 August 2009
Message-ID: <D1E4F8FEF09E574085C281B4EF6BA4F1018C1774@GAIA.ds.wits.ac.za>

FYI,

Regards

Denise

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Intellectual Property:

Designing a Copyright law that is built to last

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MichaelGeistsBlog/~3/EaKjDlHvG5M/

Writers Balk at Google Book Deal

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/4766/writers_balk_at_google_book_d
eal/

National Writers Union Opposes Google Settlement - I agree

http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/14/national-writers-union-opposes-google
-settlement-i-agree/

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

SCOAP3: a key library leadership opportunity in the transition to open
access

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/scoap3-key-library-leadershi
p.html

Dandelon.com - the free scientific search portal

www.dandelon.com

Is Open Source the Right Solution for Your Higher Ed Campus?

http://www.prweb.com/releases/higher_ed_open_source/technology_professio
nals/prweb2769024.htm

First Open Access mandate in China

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/08/first-oa-mandate-in-china.htm
l

Centre digitising data on traditional medicinal plants

http://www.zeenews.com/news541892.html

Growth of e-books in Libraries

http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/14/ifla-conference-paper-on-growth-of-eb
ooks-in-libraries/

Conference alerts:

IUG-SA 2009 Conference (South Africa)

11-13 November 2009

Venue: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Conference Centre
in Port Elizabeth

Email: Hester.kritzinger at nmmu.ac.za.

International Conference on Digital Scholarship and Emerging
Technologies

25-27 May 2010 organized by University of Botswana, University of
Pretoria and CSIR (SA)

Venue: University of Botswana New Conference Complex, Gaborone,

Contact: Prof Stephen M. Mutula

E:mail: mutulasm at mopipi.ub.bw or smutula at hotmail.com

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Thu Aug 20 14:44:35 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:44:35 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 20 August 2009
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FYI, Regards, Denise

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