Copyright & A2K Issues - 6 July 2009

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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:29:36 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 6 July 2009
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Public Lending Right for South Africa?

Does South Africa need a Public Lending Right?

http://kim.wits.ac.za/index.php?module=blog&action=viewsingle&postid=gen
11Srv0Nme53_4234_1246874412&userid=8988090205

or http://kim.wits.ac.za (Copyright & A2K Issues Blog)

South African Authors Seek First Public Lending Right In A Developing
Country

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/29/south-african-authors-seek-fir
st-public-lending-right-in-a-developing-country/

IFLA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) do not promote a
Public Lending Right for developing countries

see: IFLA Position Paper on Public Lending Rights

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/the-ifla-position-on-public-lending-
right

Intellectual Property:

Common Property Rights and Profit Sharing (Part 1)

http://apruess.blogspot.com/2009/07/common-property-rights-and-profit.ht
ml

Lawyers claim ringtones are public performance

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/ascap_eff_ringtones_copyright_in
fringement_claims/

The Top 50 Patent Blogs

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/07/06/the-top-50-patent-blogs/id=4491/

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Beyond Institutional Repositories

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1425692

SPARC Open Access Newsletter No. 135

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/07-02-09.htm

Kansas University offers free access to scholarly articles

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2009/jul/05/access/

ARL publishes Author Addenda, Spec Kit 310

http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2009/07/02/arl-publishes-aut
hor-addenda-spec-kit-310/

Conference alerts:

International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2010)

Shaping the Information Paradigm

23-26 February, 2010, New Delhi, India

http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/

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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Jul 14 13:54:52 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 July 2009
(part 1)
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FYI,

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Intellectual Property:

Copyright & A2K in Africa: Research Findings on Limitations & Exceptions
from an Eight-Country Study Briefing Paper 2 - May 2009

http://www.aca2k.org/attachments/180_ACA2K%20Briefing%20Paper%202%20-%20
May%202009.pdf

"Intellectual Property" is a Silly Euphemism

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectual.property

Piracy in Africa

http://aliquidnovi.org/2009/07/06/piracy-in-africa/

The effect of piracy on Africa's entry into the global knowledge economy

http://aliquidnovi.org/2009/07/08/the-effect-of-piracy-on-africas-entry-
into-the-global-knowledge-economy/

South Perspective - How Developing Countries Can Manage Intellectual
Property Rights to Maximize Access to Knowledge

http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102
3&Itemid=184

Implementing WIPO's Development Agenda

http://aliquidnovi.org/2009/07/03/implementing-wipos-development-agenda/

Green Party on 'copyright problems'

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22527

Traditional Knowledge:

Indigenous and Local Community Experiences

http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/ngoparticipation/ind_loc_com/index.html

On "Intellectual Property" and Indigenous Peoples

http://fsfe.org/projects/wipo/iprip.en.html

Late-Night Breakdown on Traditional Knowledge at WIPO; Future Unknown

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/07/06/late-night-breakdown-on-tradit
ional-knowledge-at-wipo-future-unclear/

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The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
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http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Jul 14 13:55:11 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:55:11 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 14 July 2009 (part 2)
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FYI,

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Plagiarism:

Plagiarism in the age of Google, and post-Google?

http://aliquidnovi.org/2009/05/05/plagarism-in-the-age-of-google-and-pos
t-google/

J.K. Rowling Accused of Plagiarizing Harry Potter .. Yet Again

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090616/0335525246.shtml

Special Report: Swedish Author's Take On The Catcher In The Rye
Copyright Case

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=5197

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Academic Publishing Must Face the Inconvenient Truth

http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/academic-publishing-must
-face-the-inconvenient-truth/

How do I make my research papers openly available without leaving out
peer-review?

http://eresourcesatbradford.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/how-do-i-make-my-re
search-papers-openly-available-without-leaving-out-peer-review/

Planning and Managing the Digitization of Library and Archives
Materials: a multi-model approach

http://www.slideshare.net/jbweave/pitts-library-digitization-initiatives

Repository for Public Domain pictures

http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/

Knowledge Exchange comparative report on Costs and Benefits of Open
Access

http://thecaribbeanlibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/07/knowledge-exchange-com
parative-report.html

Publish and Cherish with Non-proprietary Peer Review Systems

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/waaijers/

Digital Libraries

http://www.academicinfo.net/digital.html

Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2009

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/06/dramatic-growth-of-open-acce
ss-june-30.htm

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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Fri Jul 17 15:12:45 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:12:45 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 17 July 2009
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FYI,

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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

5 free on-line learning resources for professionals

http://www.examiner.com/x-14645-Wilmington-Professional-Development-Exam
iner~y2009m7d16-5-free-online-learning-resources-for-professionals

List of publishers who now allow the deposition of their published
version/PDF in Institutional Repositories -
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html
<http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html>

Results of EC questionnaire on OA
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/07/results-of-eu-questionnaire-
on-oa.html>

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/07/results-of-eu-questionnaire-o
n-oa.html

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography Version 4

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm

British Library's Digitisation Strategy 2008-2011

http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/digitisation/digistrategy/ind
ex.html

Digital Repositories

http://www.arl.org/sc/models/repositories/index.shtml

SPARCH-ACR Forum: Doomsday Clock Countdown for Scholarly Communications?

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

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

Intellectual Property:

No place for state in our hard drives?

http://www.calgaryherald.com/place+state+hard+drives/1785203/story.html

Juggling copyright and open access in the 21st century: A South African
case study (PPT)

http://www.slideshare.net/iaaldafrika/copyright-and-open-access

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The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Mon Jul 20 10:45:00 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:45:00 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 20 July 2009
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FYI,

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Intellectual Property:

That Pesky (Fair Use) Checklist (U.S.)

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/07/19/that-pesky-checklist/

Uganda awaits Counterfeits' Law

http://allafrica.com/stories/200907160097.html

High-Level Forum on Intellectual Property for the Least Developed
Countries: The Strategic Use of Intellectual Property for Prosperity and
Development

http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2009/article_0024.html

Traditional Knowledge:

There is Need to Protect Community Rights

http://world.globaltimes.cn/africa/2009-07/448723.html

Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

As library budgets collapse, authors need to take responsibility for
access

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/07/06/as-library-budgets-coll
apse-authors-need-to-take-responsibility-for-access/

When is a Mandate not a Mandate?

http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/when-is-a-mandate-not-a-manda
te/

Institutional Repositories

http://presentations.ala.org/images/2/2c/Royster_2009_ALA_CDER.pdf

The World's Oldest Bible Digitized

http://digitization.heritagemicrofilm.com/index.php/2009/07/14/worlds-ol
dest-bible-digitized/

Publish and Cherish with non-proprietary peer review systems"

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/waaijers/

ELPUB 2009 Conference Papers/Presentations

http://conferences.aepic.it/index.php/elpub/elpub2009/schedConf/presenta
tions

GreenXchange: Sustainable Innovation Meets the Creative Commons

http://www.reuters.com/article/gwmInnovationAndDesign/idUS26124773622009
0713

Conference alert for 2010:

International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL)
Shaping the Information Paradigm

23-26 February 2010, New Delhi, India
www.teriin.org/events/icdl <http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl>

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
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Tue Jul 21 14:21:50 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:21:50 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 21 July 2009
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Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:

Top 400 institutional repositories (Webometrics July 2009)

http://repositories.webometrics.info/top400_rep_inst.asp?offset=50

South African IR rankings:

113 University of Pretoria Electronic Theses and Dissertations
<http://upetd.up.ac.za/>

190 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Space
<http://researchspace.csir.co.za/>

280 Rhodes University Eresearch Repository <http://eprints.ru.ac.za/>

341 University of Johannesburg UJDigiSpace
<http://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za:8080/dspace/>

396 University of Cape Town Computer Science Research Document Archive
<http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/>

Plea for African Digital Libraries

http://www.scidev.net/en/news/plea-for-african-digital-libraries.html

Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional
Research Repositories in Europe

www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/vernooy-gerritsen-et-al

Beyond Romary & Armbruster On Institutional Repositories and Open Access

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/606-guid.html

Intellectual Property:

Stephen Fry: Time For Politicians To Represent People's Interest On
Copyright, Not Corporations

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090713/1936485534.shtml

Government of Canada Launches National Consultations on Copyright
Modernization

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/04840.html

Innovation Policy Needs National Focus, Use Of TRIPS Obligations,
Panellists Say

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/07/20/innovation-policy-needs-nation
al-focus-use-of-trips-obligations-panellists-say/

AP Has No Right to Obama 'Hope' Image, Photographer Tells Judge

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aVR_et1I9K.Q

Entertainment Litigastion: Pope Benedict, Intellectual Propeorty Rights
and Coldplay

http://www.entertainmentlitigationblog.com/2009/07/entertainment_litigat
ion_pope.html

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2827

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Copyright Services Librarian,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa
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Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946
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From Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za Wed Jul 22 13:48:18 2009
From: Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za (Denise Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:48:18 +0200
Subject: [Copyrightanda2kinfo] Copyright & A2K Issues - 22 July 2009
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FYI,

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