Copyright & A2K Issues - 11 December 2018

11 December 2018 · Denise Nicholson

This is a free online international Information Service covering various topics, including copyright, plagiarism and other IP matters, Open Access, open publishing, open learning resources, institutional repositories, scholarly communication, digitization and library matters, mobile technologies, issues affecting access to knowledge (A2K), particularly in developing countries; WTO and WIPO treaties and matters; Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS Plus; useful websites, conference alerts, etc. Archives are available at: http://www.africanlii.org/content/copyright-a2k-information . If you would like to subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, this newsletter, please do so at: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo or email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za only (N.B. PLEASE DO NOT SEND TO WHOLE MAILING LIST) N.B. THIS NEWSLETTER WILL NOT BE DISTRIBUTED FROM 12 JANUARY 2018 UNTIL MID-JANUARY 2019. WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. FOR THOSE WHO CELEBRATE OTHER FESTIVALS OR HOLY DAYS, ALL THE BEST TO YOU TOO.

Intellectual Property:

Drama In South Africa Leads To Passing Fair Use

http://infojustice.org/archives/40677

Statement by Recreate South Africa on The Passing of the Copyright Amendment Bill

http://infojustice.org/archives/40692

Towards WIPO Regional Seminars On Copyright Exceptions: Looking Out For Users

http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/12/06/towards-wipo-regional-seminars-copyright-exceptions-looking-users/

Canada's Statutory Review of the Copyright Act, 2018: my individual submission

https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/12/canadas-statutory-review-of-copyright.html

Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and EU copyright law: Who owns AI?

https://zenodo.org/record/2001763#.XA90hGgzb4Y

The Gap between Artistic Practice and Copyright Rhetoric

http://infojustice.org/archives/40675

Evolution of Africa’s Intellectual Property Treaty Ratification Landscape

https://bit.ly/2C3jG09

Work continues at the World Intellectual Property Organization: a week of #Copyright4Libraries

https://www.ifla.org/node/91732

Disjunction between human rights and IPR

https://www.dailypioneer.com/2018/columnists/disjunction-between-human-rights-and-ipr.html

Nigerian Copyright Reform and Implications for Access to Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) in the Digital Age

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/26172

Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property - Background Brief - No. 1

https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=3858

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Enhancing access to education for all

http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2018-12/09/content_74250950.htm

The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) - Issue 22, 2018

https://bit.ly/2PvZWpv

European funders detail their open-access plan

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/european-funders-detail-their-open-access-plan

Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey

https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2018/oclcresearch-practices-patterns-research-information-management/report.html

Need for a change in scientific publishing

https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nopos/article/view/4509

The Future Of The Ideas Business – The Rise Of Data-Driven Invention

http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/12/07/future-ideas-business-rise-data-driven-invention/

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