Compliments and everything of the best for 2019!

Intellectual Property:

United States: The Enrichment Of The Public Domain

http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?article_id=769988&email_access=on

Public Domain Day: Copyrighted Works from 1923 Become Public Domain January 1st, 2019

https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/public-domain-day-copyrighted-works-from-1923-become-public-domain-january-1st-2019.htm

Making Progress: Welcome Vote in South African Parliament on Copyright for Libraries

https://blogs.ifla.org/lpa/2018/12/12/south-africa-sets-the-bar-high-on-copyright-for-libraries/

Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore 

Thirty-Eighth Session 2018 – Webcasting

https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=46446

Copyright Week:  Day 2:  Out of Hand? Libraries, eBook ownership and Lending

https://blogs.ifla.org/lpa/2019/01/15/out-of-hand-libraries-ebook-ownership-and-lending/

#Copyrightweek – Silencing The Voices: © The New Weapon of Choice

https://copybuzz.com/copyright/copyrightweek-silencing-the-voices-the-new-weapon-of-choice/

A Nazi Romance Movie Versus Memes: When Copyright Shuts Down Criticism

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/nazi-romance-movie-versus-memes-when-copyright-shuts-down-criticism

India: Owner Of The Artworks Created By AIs

http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?article_id=768912&email_access=on

 

Internet Regulation:

Internet Regulation : Part I: Internet Censorship in the UK Today

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/reports/Internet_Regulation_Part_I_Internet_Censorship_in_the_UK_today-web.pdf

The Internet is Facing a Catastrophe For Free Expression and Competition: You Could Tip The Balance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can

 

eBooks and eLending:

What’s Up with eLending?   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMiyPQypNY

eLending Project

http://elendingproject.org/

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Editorial Mutiny at Elsevier Journal

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/14/elsevier-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal

Should authors pay to submit their papers?

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/journals/open-access/pay-to-submit-open-access-2018.html

Plan T: Scrap APCs and Fund Open Access with Submission Fees

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/20/plan-t-scrap-apcs-and-fund-open-access-with-submission-fees/

Knowledge Unlatched will double number of Open Access titles from 2018 collections to 700 new books

http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/2019/01/pr-01-2019/

 

Open Data/Open Science:

A Huge Win for Open Data in the United States

https://sparcopen.org/news/2019/huge-win-open-data-united-states/

Module 1: Open Principles – Open Science MOOC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2nxskYemJE&feature=youtu.be