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)
Intellectual Property:
Analysis of Woods and Myburgh Comments on CAB (SA Copyright Amendment Bill)
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=research
alcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/55/How Far Can Regulations Go? A South African Public Law Perspective On The Potential Response Through Regulations To Legitimate And Genuine Issues In The Copyright Amendment Bill, B-13b Of 2017
http://infojustice.org/archives/42534
On A Knife Edge? South Africa’s New Copyright Law
Intellectual Property and Education in the Age of Covid-19
http://infojustice.org/archives/42544
COVID and Copyright – The Right to Research
https://www.eifl.net/blogs/covid-and-copyright-right-research
COVID and Copyright – Impact On Education and Libraries in South Africa
http://infojustice.org/?s=covid+denise+nicholson
Coronavirus and Copyright – Or, the Copyright Concerns of the Widespread Move to Online Instruction
http://infojustice.org/archives/42107
Libraries are not a Crime
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/08/brian-frye-libraries-not-a-crime/
EIFL Welcomes Rights Retention Strategy for Researchers
https://www.eifl.net/news/eifl-welcomes-rights-retention-strategy-researchers
Open Access, A2k & Scholarly Communication:
Wits Cybercrime Guide 2020
Visibility of Scholarly Research and Changing Research Communication Practices: A Case Study from Namibia
Trends of Publications' Citations and Altmetrics Based on Open Access Types
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3383583.3398584
Can Universities Finally Learn to Share Before Facebook Does It for Us?
What Do Libraries Keep When They Cancel the Big Deal?
The Increasingly Open World of Photography: A Conversation with Exposure’s Luke Beard
Nearly 500 CC-licensed Education Images are Now Available!
View 250,000 British Paintings & Sculptures Free Online
http://www.openculture.com/2020/08/view-250000-british-paintings-sculptures-free-online.html
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back — The Pandemic’s Impact on Open Access Progress
Predatory Publishers/Journals:
Predatory Journals
https://tressacademic.com/identify-predatory-journals/
Predatory Publishers
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/Predatory_Publishers
Open Educational Resources:
Arts Research Africa Conference 2020 – Full Proceedings
http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/29248
Who Benefits from the Public Good? How OER Is Contributing to the Private Appropriation of the Educational Commons
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-4276-3_5