Intellectual Property:

Copyright is about equipping students not ripping off writers

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/copyright-change-is-about-equipping-students-not-ripping-off-writers/news-story/4439e2947b227e4253100a5dc096c4ae

Free Software, Open Access, And Open Science Groups Join Fight Against EU Copyright Directive's Terrible Ideas

http://bit.ly/2fm3wDh

WIPO General Assembly - Forty-Ninth (23rd Ordinary) Session, Geneva, October 2 to 11, 2017

Report on the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_ga_49/wo_ga_49_5.pdf

Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO - Fifty-Seventh Series of Meetings - October 2 to 11, 2017

http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/assemblies/2017/a_57/agenda.html

Abp Jurkovič delivers statement to WIPO Assemblies

http://bit.ly/2hN3isY

Understanding Music Licensing on YouTube

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/10/02/understanding-music-licensing-on-youtube/

5 Things that can’t be copyrighted (USA)

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/01/08/5-things-that-cant-be-copyrighted/

5 Easy Ways to Get Sued on Facebook

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/08/25/5-easy-ways-to-get-sued-on-facebook/

An SA twist in the ‘Cola Wars’ – Trade mark dispute

https://www.golegal.co.za/cola-wars-trade-mark-dispute/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Referring Elsevier/RELX to the Competition and Markets Authority

http://bit.ly/2fP7vvU

Elsevier Launching Rival To Wikipedia By Extracting Scientific Definitions Automatically From Authors' Texts

http://bit.ly/2yonbhb

Elsevier Continues To Build Its Monopoly Solution For All Aspects Of Scholarly Communication

http://bit.ly/2vUykom

Digital Publishing for the Humanities and Social Sciences

http://www.utpjournals.press/toc/jsp/48/2