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Copyright and related issues around access to knowledge
This website provides free online information on a host of topics relating to access to knowledge, e.g. copyright and other IP matters; open access initiatives; open source projects; WTO and WIPO matters; plagiarism; digitization in libraries and archives; IP Chapter in Free Trade Agreements, etc.

This site is under construction - items have been added to make material available at this stage, but will be edited and categorised in a more orderly way on an ongoing basis.

Should you find any duplicate records, websites that are no longer accessible or incorect URLs, please advise Denise Nicholson at Nicholson.D@library.wits.ac.za

News Alerts from Denise Nicholson
A very big thank you to Mr. Paul West and Mr. Wayne Mackintosh of the Commonwealth of Learning (www.col.org)for assisting me in launching my Copyright Information Service's Archives online!! 2 August 2006

This site is still under construction but I have added as much information as I can at this stage to make it accessible to you. It will, however, be edited and categorised in a more orderly manner in due course. In the meantime, you can find information via the keyword Search Facility. If you have any problems in this regard, please contact me as per details below:

Denise Nicholson Copyright Services Librarian University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa Tel: +27 11 717-1929 Fax: +27 11 717-1946 Email : Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za www.wits.ac.za/library/services/copyright

Open Access

Open Archiving - Open Publishing

Creative Commons

References

=Copyright and related matters - 2006=

Public Domain
Public Domain

Fair use
Applying fair use in the development of electronic reserves http://www.arl.org/access/eres/eresfinalstmt.shtml

Copyright and Fair use (Stanford University) http://fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary_and_analysis/

Parody as fair Use - an interesting and entertaining aspect of copyright law http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians/livewire/2006/7.1/copyright.html

Access to Knowledge (A2K)
Text of Draft A2K Treaty which librarians, educators, researchers and other users of information are promoting globally http://www.cptech.org/a2k/consolidatedtext-may9.pdf

Other articles, etc. on the Access to Knowledge Initiative - http://www.cptech.org/a2k http://www.tacd.org

IFLA and the A2K Treaty - Statement by IFLA CLM Inter-Sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO - 2nd Session, Geneva - June 20-22, 2005 - http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/p1/A2K-1.htm

IFLA and the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Treaty Statement Supporting a Development Agenda for WIPO - http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/p1/A2K-5.htm

Official A2K Poster available at : http://www.access2knowledge.org/cs/

Libraries advocating for Access to Knowledge - http://www.eifl.net/services/ipcis_pr.html

Yale A2K Conference 2006 - Urs Gasser has summarised highlights on his blog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ugasser/2006/04/23#a837

UNCTAD/ ICTSD paper available at: http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/regional_research.htm Intellectual Property, Education and Access to Knowledge in Southern : UNCTAD/ICTSD paper by Andrew Rens, Achal Prabhala and Dick Kawooya http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/docs/06%2005%2031%20tralac%20amended-pdf.pdf

Presentations at the Africa Copyright Forum Conference in Kampala, Uganda, Nov,2005, on copyright and access to information in Africa at http://www.nlu.go.ug/presentations.htm. At this Conference, the Africa Copyright and Access to Information Alliance was launched to assist African countries with copyright matters and issues affecting access to knowledge. Alliance's name has since been changed to African Access to Knowledge Alliance (AAKA)

Open Access/Open Publishing/Open Source
Authors and Open Access publishing: www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISCOAReport1.pdf

Model for a UK national eprints delivery system: www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ACF1E88.pdf

All reports on OA, including articles published in journals: www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/ www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/Eprints_LP_paper.pdf

Open Source-Opens Learning: Why open source makes sense for education http://www.opensourcesummit.org/open-source-200408.pdf

JSTOR Announces "Open Africa" Initiative http://email.libraryjournal.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/hrSv0ElQj20PEA0CspA0ED

Connexions Takes Open Source Approach to Education Contenthttp://www.linuxinsider.com/story/pKKHE1CxcFuER4/Connexions-Takes-Open-Source-Approach-to-Education-Content.xhtml

Rallying Behind Open Access, Inside Higher Ed, July 28, 2006. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/28/provosts

Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007588/

dbWiz: Open Source Federated Searching for Academic Libraries. Library http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007611/ Geist calls for 'open access' government research http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=41225&cid=2

The Open Access Policy Imperative. Delivered at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005058/

A Question of Access: SPARC, BioOne and Society-driven Electronic Publishing. D-Lib Magazine 6(5). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007530/

Open Publishing Made Easy! http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007566/

Developing nation scientists – open up the research http://technocrat.net/d/2006/11/29/11529

Online Materials Broadening Global Access to Education Increasing number of universities offer free Internet access to course materials http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=December&x=200612010935031CJsamohT0.756817

Scientists push open access for developing nations http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=4&item=News&itemid=3251&language=1

Europe starts to build an Open Access information network http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2166631/europe-starts-build-oa-network

Benefits of free access http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20599488-12332,00.html

Australian universities repository website ARROW. http://www.arrow.edu.au/

Whitehead, Derek: Repositories:  What's the Target? an ARROW perspective. http://www.iatul.org/conference/proceedings/vol15/PAPERS/Derek-Whitehead-IATULpaper-Whitehead.doc

Institutional repositories: http://www.dspace.org/implement/leadirs.pdf

Ongoing crisis in academic-journal pricing is the focus of recent colloquium http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november15/ journal-111506.html

Open Access resources could mean journal subscriptions cancelled http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2006/11/open_access_res.html

New journal brings nervous system to life http://media-newswire.com/release_1039377.html

Half of RCUKs opt for open access model. http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2168441/eps-report-gets-mixed-reviews

What is Open Access? http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/WhatIsOA.htm

Open Access Webliography http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm

Bricks, Bytes, or Both? The Probable Impact of Scholarly Electronic Publishing on Library Space Needs http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/bricks.htm

The Role of Reference Librarians in Institutional Repositories http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/reflibir.pdf

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org/

Free Full Text http://www.freefulltext.com/

Free Medical Journals http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

HighWire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl

Guide to Open Content Licenses http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide

Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Directories and Guides-Open Access Publishing Gaining Independence http://www.arl.org/sparc/GI/

Open Access Journal Business Guides http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/

Publishing Open-Access Journals: A Brief Overview from The Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/downloads/oa_whitepaper.pdf

SPARC Publishing Resources http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/pubres.html

Free Open Source OAI-PMH 2.0 compliant Software http://www.library.uq.edu.au/escholarship/software.pdf

A Guide to Institutional Repository Software, v 3.0 http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/gierveld

Open Access Archive Reports http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/reports.html

Academics fight to break 'stranglehold' on journals http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,1398368,00.html

Delivery, Management and Access Model for e-Prints and Open Access Journals within Further and Higher Education http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ACF1E88.pdf

The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries (Edward M. Corrado, Systems Librarian. The College of New Jersey http://www.istl.org/05-spring/article2.html

Making medical information more accessible http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_11_26_fosblogarchive.html

Announcing The Launch Of Open Access Central http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=50349

BioMed Central opens access to Chemistry articles http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2162758/biomed-central-opens-access

Japanese Gmail Goes Open Access and The Daily Music and Tech News http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/23/150334.php

A closed mind about an open world http://www.ft.com/cms/s/64167124-263d-11db-afa1-0000779e2340.html

The University of Chicago Press to provide open access to The Journal of Business archive http://webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=18717

Free Access To Journal Of Nuclear Medicine Offered By Society Of NuclearMedicine http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=51276

Demand for open access 'low' http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2163737/demand-open-access-low

NPG journals to open access to online archives Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announces that its academic and society journals will be opening access to all online content published before January 2003 http://www.laboratorytalk.com/news/ntu/ntu131.html

E-LIS, the international archive for Library and Information Science (LIS) eprints at http://eprints.rclis.org, has reached the milestone of over 4000 eprints stored as at Aug 2006.

JSTOR Announces "Open Africa" Initiative http://www.libraryjournal.com/clear/CA6350053.html?nid=2673#news3

Publishing : copyright : intellectual property : open access Publishers watch in fear as a new world comes into view http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1756428,00.html

OpenBook makes classic books available offline http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=961&s=news

NewsArchivePlus has announced the launch of the Library Newspaper Co-operative http://www.newsarchiveplus.org/news1.htm, a new initiative with the goal of providing online access to every historic newspaper and library archive in the UK.

Open Source Software offers front-yard security http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=970&s=news

The Development Gateway Foundation's Open Educational Resources portal aims to equalize access to education and help people in developing countries improve their chances for a better life. The portal features free course materials and other educational content offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Chinese Open Resources for Education and other institutions around the world. See: http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation

Free Software : Directory : UNESCO Free Software Directory : PSF : FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory http://directory.fsf.org

ChemBank http://chembank.broad.harvard.edu/- This public, web-based informatics environment includes freely available data derived from small molecules and small-molecule screens, and resources for studying the data so that biological and medical insights can be gained

Open access publishing http://www.booksjustbooks.com/ - Selfpublishing for cheaper

Electronic theses and dissertations - ETD2005 - Evolution through discovery (Conference papers) http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/program.html

Australia is not maximising the return on its research investment - maximising research impact by mandating institutional self-archiving http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/papers/143harnad.pdf

Electronic theses and dissertations - ETD2005 - Evolution through discovery (Conference papers) http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/program.html

Open Access : Open Publishing : Publishing : Self-Publishing The Internet Makes It Easier to Go from Idea to Print by Ken Rubino http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud011506-rubino.shtml

Linking UK Repositories http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfmname=programme_digital_repositories - A new landmark report describing the technical, organisational and business models that could underpin user-facing services to be developed over UK repositories (June 2006)

Open Access : Internet : Web : Library : Libraries: Virtual Library : Virtual Libraries NetLibrary - http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/20067.htm - Expanded distribution of eAudiobook program to libraries in Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Cory Doctorow on Open Publishing for novelists: http://craphound.com/ebooksneitherenorbooks.txt

Afghans look to SA for open source http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2006/0604071303.asp?A=BSR&S=BestRead&O=FPIN

Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157

A project of the South African Theological Seminary http://www.theological-research.org/ http://ww.sats.edu.za - renders a free service to the global Christian community by providing a repository for theological research that is both Biblically sound and practically relevant.

OPENSPACE is the quarterly journal of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, protected by Creative Commons public license. http://www2.soros.org/osisa/drupal/taxonomy_menu/5/23

Supreme Court weighs in on patent fight http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/03/29/scotus.ebay.ap/index.html (The taxpayer's argument for open access)

The taxpayer .... http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-04-03.htm#taxpayer

How to avoid open source licensing pitfalls http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/02/07/213994/Howtoavoidopensourcelicensingpitfalls.htm

NIHS Reort on Open Access: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/Final_Report_20060201.pdf Open Access: Open Peer Review BioMedCentral launches Biology Direct - www.biology-direct.com (open peer review)

Open source 'helps you and helps SA' http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=2819

Open Journal Systems (OJS) - http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.

Publishers watch in fear as a new world comes into view by Dan Milmo. The move by the European commission to free up access to scientific research is the latest challenge posed by the internet to the way Reed Elsevier does business. Guardian 19/04/06 http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1756428,00.html

"The Code Breakers" A BBC World Documentary on Free/Open Source Software and Development http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc

Free software directory UNESCO supported catalogue of freeware which runs on free operating systems. Web entry form: http://directory.fsf.org/newform.html

Open Access Archive http://eprints.ictp.it/for scientific work of any scientists from any country to be posted free of charge.

British Library Research Archive http://sherpa.bl.uk, a database of papers and materials by researchers who are not affiliated to an academic institution

EU to open projects to developing country scientists http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2701&language=1 OpenDocument Format Alliance http://www.odfalliance.org

The Royal Society of Chemistry is to be the first Learned and Professional organisation to provide developing countries with free access to science journal archives. http://rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2006/Archive.asp

Concerned with the high costs of college, Freeload Press http://www.freeloadpress.com, a college textbook publisher and distributor founded by academics and publishers, has introduced a revolutionary publishing model that provides free college textbooks.

Open Access: Medical Research Tool : Faculty of 1000 Medicine - www.f1000medicine.com - new online research tool that highlights the most interesting papers in medicine, based on the recommendatnos of nearly 2500 leading researchers and clinicians.

Virtual Library : Virtual Libraries: E-Audiobooks : E-Books E-Hamilton Public Library's virtual bookshelf http://www.marketnews.ca/news_detail.asp?nid=1491 - audiobooks for borrowing and downloading, making it the first public library system in Ontario to launch the service …

A Guide To Open Content Licences Lawrence Liang http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide

Open Access - Paper by Heather Ford (CC) http://ibt.afrihost.com/accessof/files/new.doc

Open Access: OpenDocument Format Alliance http://www.odfalliance.org

Open Access: Science journal archives: The Royal Society of Chemistry http://rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2006/Archive.asp - the first Learned and Professional organisation to provide developing countries with free access to science journal archives.

Open Access: Publishing: Concerned with the high costs of college, Freeload Press http://www.freeloadpress.com, a college textbook publisher and distributor founded by academics and publishers, has introduced a revolutionary publishing model that provides free college textbooks. Archives for Africa and beyond http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/March/01030602.asp

British Library Research Archive http://sherpa.bl.uk, a database of papers and materials by researchers who are not affiliated to an academic institution

Open J-Gate  "is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites

EU : Developing countries : scientists : science EU to open projects to developing country scientists http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2701&language=1 ISBNs: 13-digit ISBNs: Guidelines for the implementation of 13-digit ISBNs: http://www.isbn-international.org/en/download/implementation-guidelines-04.pdf

Internet : Web : Open Access : Payday for the free Internet by Becky Hogge http://www.opendemocracy.net/media/payday_3351.jsp#

Open Source: Licensing How to avoid open source licensing pitfalls http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/02/07/213994/Howtoavoidopensourcelicensingpitfalls.htm

Open Access: U.S. Federal Agencies: Access: Internet: The GrayLIT Network http://www.osti.gov/graylit/ makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet

Open Access: Archives: Africa: Archives for Africa and beyond http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/March/01030602.asp

Open-source business Open, but not as usual http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5624944

Canadian Public Doman Registry : Open Access http://www.accesscopyright.ca/resources.asp?a=198

The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source by Bruce Perens http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html

Good news: Springer launches open access nano journal http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2253

Royal Society launches trial of new 'open access' journal service http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=4838

Intute - http://www.intute.ac.uk/ - a free online service providing access to Web resources for education and research.

Don't Let Intellectual Property Twist your Ethos(R. Stallman) http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/fRQfHmO9HZppP6/Dont-Let-Intellectual-Property-Twist-Your-Ethos.xhtml

Blogging WIPO: Development Agenda Deadlocked - June 2006 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/2006_06.php

RCUKfails to time stamp open access http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2160288/rcukfails-stamp-open-access

The Milton Keynes Open University in UK today (13.7.06) announced a GBP £5.65 million (US $9.9 million) project to make a selection of its learning materials available free of charge to educators and learners around the world. http://www.learningbusiness.fi/portal/news/?id=11972&area=7

Blogs and Freedom of Expression http://sangonet.org.za/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4333&Itemid=173

Musician's take on TACD creative communities and consumers http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9217

Elsevier's LIS journals are now available in some developing countries (not South Africa though) through HINARI, the World Health Organization's HealthInterNetwork and AGORA, the United Nation's Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture programs. April 2006 http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4825

A project of the South African Theological Seminary (www.sats.edu.za). The purpose of this site is to render a free service to the global Christian community by providing a repository for theological research that is both Biblically sound and practically relevant. All the research published here conforms to the three foundational principles of SATS - Bible-based, Christ-centred, Spirit-led. This site provides free access to two kinds of theological research. Conspectus is a refereed theological e-journal published biannually by SATS. The Research tab will take you to a repository for the publication of theological research reports, theses and dissertations that are in line with our ethos and values. http://www.theological-research.org/ http://www2.soros.org/osisa/drupal/taxonomy_menu/5/23 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced a partnership with Bioline International, an online publishing service that provides open access to peer-reviewed research journals published in developing countries - http://www.arl.org/sparc/announce/060518.html

Papers/presentations at Codata - Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development An International Workshop held on in September 2005 -http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/html/workshopProgramme.html Publish online, South African journals told http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2828&language=1 The taxpayer argues for open access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-04-03.htm#taxpayer

Online or Invisible? C:\Documents and Settings\denisen\Local Settings\Temp\Online or Invisible.html

Creative Commons
Netherlands: Creative Commons: Licensing: Dutch Court upholds Creative Commons licenseThe full text of the decision (in Dutch) is available at http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn&ljn=AV4

Spain : Creative Commons : Licensing Creative Commons licence – Spanish case http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-fr/2006-February/000744.html> The full news story and judgement (all in Spanish) can be downloaded from http://www.extremadura.com/comercio/noticias/ver_pagina_noticia.vhtml/8625

Scientific publishing
The Future of Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Adaptation or Transformation? http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007608/ Model Copyright Agreement - Journals - JISC and SURF http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/licence/

The ALPSP Response (30 May 06) to the EC Report on Scientific Publications (Jan 06) http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf http://www.alpsp.org/news/ALPSPresponse-ECReport.pd

“From "Publish or Perish" to "Publish and Vanish" by Christina Scott http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33219

Codata - Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development - An International Workshop- 5-7 Sept 2005 Papers, etc. at -http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/html/workshopProgramme.html

WIPO
WIPO website - www.wipo.int

WIPO Broadcasting/Webcasting Treaty
Tech companies oppose WIPO treaty on TV rights http://www.out-law.com/page-7273

WIPO's Broadcasting Treaty: Let the Public Decide https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr004=grj0os2ku2.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=227

Blogging WIPO: Webcasting out of WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, At Least For Now http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004637.php

Blogging WIPO: What's Next for the Webcasting and Broadcasting Treaties? http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004657.php

Under the Broadcast Flag - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Theft ... at Gun Point (by M J Smith)http://www.counterpunch.com/smith06302006.html

Webcasting Treaty: Casting Treaty WIPO is debating the draft Broadcasting Treaty this week (May 1-5). Read here for more details: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=288&res=1024_ff&print=0 One of the newsworthy developments is that US Tech Industry representatives (US Telecom Association and Intel) have joined the opposition to the draft Treaty. I've pasted below Intel's statement, in case you are interested. Resource pages on the Casting Treaty: http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/broadcasting_treaty/ http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/index.html

Broadcast Treaty has potential to grant unwarranted "protections http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060222-6237.html

Digital copyright bill : U.S. Copyright : U.S. Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill http://news.com.com/Congress+readies+broad+new+digital+copyright+bill/2100-1028_3-6064016.html

WIPO : Webcasting : Broadcasting: The problem with webcasting http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/01/13/the-problem-with-webcasting.html?page=1

WIPO : Webcasting Treaty: Casting Treaty Broadcast Treaty has potential to grant unwarranted "protections http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060222-6237.html

Groups Raise Concern About Broadcast Treaty Negotiations. June 9, 2006 Group Letter [PDF] [offsite], June 07, 2006: http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/wipo-nonprofit-letter-20060607.pdf Company Letter [PDF] [offsite], June 07, 2006: http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/wipo-industry-letter-20060607.pdf

Webcast: The Future of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Lee http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20060314_139 March 2006

WIPO xcasting treaties-next steps ( 8.05.2006) http://onthecommons.org/node/888

WIPO To Proceed On Broadcasting Treaty Talks Without Webcasting (5.05.2006) http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=294&res=1024_ff&print=0

Statement of Intel Corporation Concerning the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Proposed Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (10.04.2006) http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/intel04102006.pdf

WIPO carves up the Internet (and the broadcast spectrum) (May 2006) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/wipo-carves-up-the-intern_b_20336.html

Draft Basic Proposal for the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations - Including a Non-Mandatory Appendix on The Protection in Relation to Webcasting. (Feb 2006) http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/sccr/en/sccr_14/sccr_14_2.pdf

Momentum Builds in Talks on Updating Rights of Broadcasting Organizations(May 2006) http://www.wipo.int/edocs/prdocs/en/2006/wipo_upd_2006_274.html

WIPO To Proceed On Broadcasting Treaty Talks Without Webcasting (5.05.2006) http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=294&res=1024_ff&print=0

Statement of Intel Corporation Concerning the World Intellectual Property Organization's Proposed Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (10.04.2006) http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/intel04102006.pdf

WIPO carves up the Internet (and the broadcast spectrum) (4.05.2006) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/wipo-carves-up-the-intern_b_20336.html

Draft Basic Proposal for the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organziations - Including a Non-Mandatory Appendix on The Protection in Relation to Webcasting. (8.02.2006) http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/sccr/en/sccr_14/sccr_14_2.pdf

Momentum Builds in Talks on Updating Rights of Broadcasting Organizations (8.05.2006) http://www.wipo.int/edocs/prdocs/en/2006/wipo_upd_2006_274.html

James Boyle: More rights are wrong for webcasters http://news.ft.com/cms/s/441306be-2eb6-11da-9aed-00000e2511c8.html

Copyright Battle Threatens Right to Surf and Email Anonymously http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_06.php#004754

Web : Access: The end of the internet? http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/wipo-casting.html http://www.public-domain.org/node/view/47?PHPSESSID=15dc87898ff6d100f7806a2feff91cfb

WIPO Development Agenda
IP Justice on WIPO DA : http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/WIPO_DA.shtml The WIPO Development Agenda and Why You Should Care About It http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/dev_agenda/

The Proposal for Development Agenda by Argentina and Brazil (2004)http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/document/govbody/wo_gb_ga/pdf/wo_ga_31_11.pdf

Agreement Reached On WIPO Development Agenda, Patents; No Broadcasting Yet http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=410&res=800&print=0

Broadcasting decision adopted @ WIPO General Assembly http://fromgeneva.blogspot.com/2006/10/broadcasting-decision-adopted-wipo.html

WIPO and Biodiversity
WIPO : Biodiversity Nations Urge Legally Binding Biodiversity Outcome At WIPO http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=276&res=800&print=0

WIPO Legislative Assistance
WIPO assistance in the field of IP legislation. When developing countries take advantage of this assistance, they need to ensure that development & educational issues and limitations and exceptions are taken into account in any copyright law review http://www.wipo.int/cfdiplaw/en/assistance_ip.htm

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Anticircumvention and Anti-anticircumvention http://ssrn.com/abstract=931899

Five Disharmonizing Trends in the International Intellectual Property Regime http://ssrn.com/abstract=923177

As for bad examples of the DMCA, check out the EFF's "Unintended Consequences" report: http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php

Here is a paper I wrote a couple years ago on the EU Directive: http://www.ipjustice.org/eucd012903.shtml

New British Academy Report: http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/copyright/

CATO Study against DMCA: http://cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6025

Canadian Study on TPMs:
 * http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cpb/pubs/protectionII/index_e.cfm

British Royal Society Report on Copyright: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/document.asp?tip=0&id=1374

More anti-circumvention reading: http://ipjustice.org/wp/resources/reading-room-circumvention/

Governments Eye DRM Interoperability Rules As Consumers Vent Over Access http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=476&res=800&print=0

DRMs/TPMs - Australia http://www.digital.org.au/submission/TPMsub.rtf

DRM : TPM : Digital Rights Management : Technological Protection Measures: GPL3 take hard line on Digital Rights Management (DRM) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39247976,00.htm

DRM : Digital Rights Management : Technological protection measures http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt http://craphound.com/hpdrm.txt

CD's Recalled for Posing Risk to PC's http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/technology/16sony.html?emc=eta1

Digital Rights Management : Consumer Groups Unite Against DRM Tech http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=41035

Digital Rights Management : Technological protection measures WIPO study on DRM and exceptions for visually impaired and distance education has just been published: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=59952

Parliament committee hears DRM rights and wrongs. Another report on the APIG hearing of 2nd February. http://www.out-law.com/page-6608 Earlier reports from last week - • Libraries fear digital lockdown BBC News 03/02/06 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4675280.stm • LACA submission to APIG www.cilip.org.uk/laca (Click on Consultation responses)

• DRM is failing, MPs told ZDNet UK 02/02/06 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39250168,00.htm

• The British Library submits evidence to APIG on DRMs BL Press Release 02/02/06 http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060206.html

The EFF page on DRMs: http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/

Judge Grants Final Approval for Sony BMG CD Settlement (DRM case) http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_05.php#004693

Circumventing Technology: DRM : TPM : Digital Rights Management Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6025

High Court case of Stevens v Sony http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/high_ct/2005/58.html

Libraries victorious in arguing that technological protection measures should not undermine fair dealing and access to information.

British Library: Intellectual Property: IP : Copyright British Library lends itself to intellectual-property wisdom http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39257506,00.htm DRM : Digital Rights Management : TPM : British Library: MP: British Library must lead the charge on DRM http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39257467,00.htm

DRM : TPM : Digital Rights management: France: Songs: Downloads French MPs say song downloads must work on any player http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1736281,00.html

DRM is failing, MPs told The British Library, the Royal National Institute for the Blind and the open rights movement tell MPs how DRM makes life harder. Feb 2006http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39250168,00.htm

Warner Music and the FNAC condemned for a too protected CD (French only, 19.01 2006) http://www.01net.com/editorial/302073/droit/warner-music-et-la-fnac-condamnees-pour-cd-trop-protege/

• Private copy : no exception for computers ( French only, 19.01.2006) http://www.quechoisir.org/Position.jsp;jsessionid=7AC3535FA8E4BE255B282F03833F09C6.tomcat21?id=Ressources:Positions:19A346F250535DFAC12570FB0038D6A2&catcss=IMA101

• EDRI-gram : French court forbids DVD copy protection ( 4.05.2005) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number3.9/DVD Parody as fair Use * an interesting and entertaining aspect of copyright law http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians/livewire/2006/7.1/copyright.html

Now you © it, soon you won't (By Jamie King) The laws of copyright are being rendered meaningless by the growth of digitall technology. So how will writers and artists earn a crust? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2056103,00.html

Libraries : Librarians : Guidelines on DRM : Digital Rights Management : a Guide for Librarians http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/digitalrights/DRMfinal.pdf

Needham, Kirsty. "High Court Chips Away at Sony's Stranglehold", The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 October 2005, p 1, http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/high-court-chips-away-at-sonys-stranglehold/2005/10/06/1128562943280.html

US Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill - The proposed copyright law would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers. April 2006 http://news.com.com/Congress+readies+broad+new+digital+copyright+bill/2100-1028_3-6064016.html

Free Trade Agreements/EPAS/Bilaterals/TRIPS-Plus/IP and Trade issues
TRIPs and Its Discontents http://ssrn.com/abstract=578577

Democrats Could Slow US Trade Deals But May Change Little On IP By Martin Vaughan http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index_test.php?p=466 Draft EU-Caribbean Agreement Shows Escalated IP Provisions http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=3D463&res=3D1024_ff&print=3D0

Drug patents/prices: Long arm of US power http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.progressive/sm_drug_patents_prices_long_arm_of_us_power_9682393t.html

Rich countries 'blocking cheap drugs for developing world' http://www.nnseek.com/e/soc.culture.chile/rich_countries_blocking_cheap_drugs_for_developing_5452009t.html

Memo to the next Google: Don't set up shop in Australia http://www.digital.org.au/media/media14-11-2006.htm

A U.S.-Taiwan FTA: the view from Taipei http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=34&idsub=158&id=6523&t=A+U.S.-Taiwan+FTA%3A+the+view+from+Taipei

Fighting FTAs - general overview of FTAs and BITS that have been signed

or are being negotiated around the world http://www.bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/Overview.pdf

A critique of bilateral FTA's - by Jamie Love (CPTech) http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Bilateral_Free_Trade_Agreements_and_IP

US all-or-nothing position derails free trade talks http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6489 Negotiations towards a free trade agreement with the US have "all but come to a halt", according to Tshediso Matona, the director-general of South Africa's department of trade and industry.

SA, EU Consolidate Cooperation http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6486 The European Union (EU) and South Africa have agreed to start negotiations for a comprehensive update and revision of the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA).

Govt urged to be careful in FTA talks with US - Mayasia http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6488

Workshop on "Malaysia-US free trade agreement: Issues, implications and challenges" - summary report http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6472

S. Korea to hold public hearing on trade deal with EU | 15-November-2006 http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6469

Police alert over FTA demonstration - South Korea http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6464

Local laws may clash with proposed FTA - South Korea http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6456

Anti-FTA groups denied state subsidies - South Korea http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6455

S Korean workers demand end to trade talks with US http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6454

Slow track: Democratic gains raise roadblocks to free-trade push http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6449

US-Russia Bilateral/WTO Deal Pushes New Standards For IP Protection http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=467&res=800&print=0

The mass people's resistance against KorUS FTA has started - KoA http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=6578

US Advises Developing Country FTA Partners Not To Follow WHO IP Plan http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=485&res=800&print=0

Free Trade Agreements and TPMs https://www.eff.org/IP/FTAA/tpm_issues_eng.pdf

SADC and Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) The EC wishes to include so-called “new generation trade issues” (including Intellectual property) in EPAs. The SADC EPA group are resisting vehemently. http://www.tralac.org/newsletter/01aug2006.html

South American Ministers vow to avoid TRIPS-plus measures http://www.tralac.org/scripts/content.php?id=4941

Rimmer, M. "Robbery Under Arms:  Copyright Law and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement", First Monday, 2006, Vol. 11 (3), http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_3/rimmer/index.html, SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=855805

Bilaterals.org is a collective effort to share information and stimulate cooperation against bilateral trade and investment agreements that are opening countries to the deepest forms of penetration by transnational corporations http://www.bilaterals.org/

In Digital Age, Advancing a Flexible Copyright System http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/26crea.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

How did copyright become part of the global trading system? Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? By: Drahos, Peter; Braithwaite, John (2002) http://cgkd.anu.edu.au/menus/publications.php#drahos US always in the driving seat in FTA talks http://www.tralac.org/scripts/content.php?id=4707

US-Sacu trade talks ‘on life-support’ http://www.tralac.org/scripts/content.php?id=4708

Inflexible" US threatens southern Africa free-trade deal http://www.tralac.org/scripts/content.php?id=4703

"The FTA clause that stifles creativity" http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/13/1081838720006.html

See Matthew Rimmer's concerns on how the copyright term extension will impact on the operation of libraries, cultural institutions and also the creators, in the article : "FTA would bring piracy crackdown: lawyer" http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/17/1084646123079.html

Central American trade pact brews public health storm http://www.scidev.net/Features/index.cfm?fuseaction=readFeatures&itemid=280&language=1

These articles highlight some of the problems with the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act and technological protection measures.

Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php (this describes the ways in which the overbroad technological protection measure provisions in the DMCA have been used in the US to curb freedom of expression, chill scientific research and publication and to block competition and stifle technological innovation).

Getting the Balance Right: Seven Lessons from a Comparison of the Technological Protection Measure Provisions of the FTAA, the DMCA, and the U.S.-Singapore and U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreements http://www.eff.org/IP/FTAA/tpm_implementation.php

Technological Protection Measures Issues Paper http://www.eff.org/IP/FTAA/tpm_issues_eng.pdf

Trade: IP : Intellectual Property : Medicines: Uganda Trade related IP and medicines http://www.3dthree.org/pdf_3D/3DHRCUgandaBrief04en.pdf

Here are the Australian parliamentary committee reports, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT) which is Govt-dominated, see http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/usafta/report.htm and the Senate Select Committee of inquiry into the Free Trade Agreement (Opposition- dominated) see http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/freetrade_ctte/report/final/index.htm

Fraser, Andrew. "How Our MPs Went Into Evergreening Overdrive", The Canberra Times, 9 August 2004, http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=your%20say&subclass=general&category=editorial%20opinion&story_id=326989&y=2004&m=8

Wade, Matt and Metherell, Mark. "Evergreening Cost Grows To Millions", The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 August 2004, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/04/1091557922332.html

TheAustralian Senate Select Committee has released its report on the free trade agreement: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/freetrade_ctte/report/summary/report.pdf The IP Section is here: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/freetrade_ctte/report/summary/ch03.pdf

TRIPS Flexibilities
Copyright Limitations and Exceptions - Guidelines when reviewing national copyright laws See: http://www.col.org/colweb/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/docs/Copyright%20Document.pdf Alternatively, go to www.col.org and click on the Document under "Files" directly under the picture on the right-hand side of the screen.

The ability of select sub-Saharan African countries to utilise TRIPs Flexibilities and Competition Law to ensure a sustainable supply of essential medicines: A study of producing and importing countries. By Tenu Avafia, Jonathan Berger and Trudi Hartzenberg http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/docs/Trade%20and%20Competition%2015%20Feb%202006%20edited.doc

Copyright policies
Copyright policies in universities http://www.surf.nl/copyright/

Patents
Book on software patenting: http://entertainment.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/27/1351223&from=rss

Bar code to mobile patent awarded http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2006/0604051030.asp?A=LEG&S=Legal%20View&T=Section&O=ST

Four-year ‘limited patent’ proposed Feb 2006 http://www.out-law.com/page-6612

Patents: This Essay breaks the law http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html?ex=1300424400&en=9addb806498d2739&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Software patents : Patents : IP : Intellectual Property Nuclear War over software patents? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060206_503666.htm

Developing countries : patents : IP : intellectual property European Union. Regulation recently adopted to enable the export of patented medicines to poor countries http://www.ipr-  helpdesk.org/controlador/noticia?seccion=noticia&tipoListado=all&id=0000005915&len=en&mode=subscription

U.K. judge frowns on software patents http://news.com.com/U.K.+judge+frowns+on+software+patents/2100-1012_3-6027097.html?tag=st_lh

Patents : Innovation : IP : Intellectual Property EU: European patent system is too costly and may be discouraging innovation http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=142641&src=0

Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation : Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property : Digitization : Rusbridge, Chris. "Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?" Ariadne (46)(February 2006)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/rusbridge/

ICABS publications on digital preservation now online! http://www.ifla.org/VI/7/icabs.htm#Publications Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html

Yahoo Works With 2 Academic Libraries and Other Archives on Project to Digitize Collections http://chronicle.com/free/2005/10/2005100301t.htm

Rusbridge, Chris. "Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?" Ariadne (46)(February 2006)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ issue46/rusbridge/)

Digital Preservation - Computer-Aided Manufacturing http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_5_1.htm

Copyright extension
Copyright : Extension of copyright : Copyright term : U.S. Copyright Office (U.S.) Copyright office head denounces "big mistake" of extending copyright http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/21/copyright_office_hea.html

South Centre, Geneva - IP Programmes
"Implications of Investment Agreements on Regulations and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights". http://www.southcentre.org/info/sccielipquarterly/ipdev2006q2.pdf

WIPO : Intellectual Property : Intergovernmental South Centre bolsters its IP programme. The South Centre, a Geneva-based intergovernmental organisation, is gearing up its work on intellectual property by launching a new programme on innovation, access to knowledge and intellectual property. The centre says it already sees the results of the programme in developing countries increased involvement in IP, including at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Intellectual Property Watch 20/04/06 http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index_test.php?p=272 http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=272&res=800&print=0

IP : Intellectual Property : South Centre : WIPO : Least Developed countries : TRIPS : TRIPS transition period Intellectual Property Quarterly Update - South Centre, Geneva : Extension of the Transition period for Least Developed countries... http://www.southcentre.org/info/sccielipquarterly/ipdev2006q1.pdf

Best Practices / Libraries/ Management
Licensing And Copyright Management: Best Practices Of College, Special And Research Libraries http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/81a979/licensing_and_copyright_management_best

Creating the Virtual Reference Service http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/81a979/creating_the_virtual_reference_service

Best Practices of Public Library Information Technology Directors http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/81a979/best_practices_of_public_library_information

Creating the Digital Academic Library http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/81a979/creating_the_digital_academic_library

Creating the Digital Library http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/81a979/creating_the_digital_library

Creating the Digital Art Library - http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/81a979/creating_the_digital_art_library

Best practices in electronic print http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/81a979/prevailing_best_practices_in_electronic_print

Piracy
Perth man named in piracy sting http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18015147%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

RIAA's next big target: Russia http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051227-5849.html Interview with Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=281&res=1024_ff&print=0

Counterfeiting and piracy: Commission proposes criminal law provisions to combat intellectual property offences http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/532&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Young pirate has France's ear By Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/14/business/audionaut15.php

Google Notebook
Google Notebook http://www.google.com/notebook "makes web research of all kinds easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you're browsing the web".

Publishing Put 'fair use' right in UK copyright law, says NCC http://www.out-law.com/page-6919

Copy South Project
Copy South Dossier - Issues in the economics, politics and ideology of copyright in the global South www.copysouth.org or http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006278/ or http://www.indymedia.org/fr/2006/05/839661.shtml available in various languages and Open Source

Newspapers
Proquest - a new service enabling librarians to print reference copies of today's newspapers from around the world directly in the library. http://www.newspaperdirect.com/about/news/2006/0531.aspx (Feb 2006)

World Summit (WSIS)
ICT success stories portal The ICT Success Stories Portal was officially launched on March 31, Geneva, Switzerland, as a part of its follow-up work to the World Summit on the Information Society. Libraries are included. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/wsis-themes/ict_stories/

The WSIS Golden Book was officially launched on 24 February 2006 at an implementation meeting in Geneva. The book is a permanent record of the new commitments pledged by stakeholders. It is also a co-ordination tool to avoid duplication of effort. WSIS 24/02/06 http://www.itu.int/wsis/goldenbook/

WSIS outcome documents, implementation and follow up http://www.itu.int/wsis/

Human rights abuses in the run up to the WSIS http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE300192005Tunisia

World Summit : Unesco
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wsis/consultation/

See also: CILIP and WSIS http://www.cilip.org.uk/professionalguidance/internationalwork/wsis

Useful websites
Digital Law Online http://digital-law-online.info/

IPRsonline.org (http://www.iprsonline.org/index.htm) is an internet portal on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Sustainable Development. It contains a selection of relevant online documents and resources related to IPRs and sustainable development including a guide to IPRs, proposals submitted to the WTO, discussion papers classified by topics, a calendar of IPRs related events, latest news on IPRs, and links to listservs and relevant institutions working on IPRs.

UNCTAD-ICTSD Capacity Building Project on IPRs : http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/regional_research.htm

http://www.info-commons.org/resources.shtml#ind Activism Anti-DMCA http://www.anti-dmca.org/

CanOpenEr http://www.canopener.ca/ Canadian Open Source Education and Research, is a "National advocacy group to educate Canadians about all aspects of the Free Software Movement, GNU/Linux, and Open Source Software."

http://digitalconsumer.org/ DigitalConsumer is an organization promoting Fair Use and consumer rights in digital media. This site contains information about the organization, news links, and their proposed Consumer Technology Bill of Rights.

Digital Future Coalition http://www.dfc.org/ Website of the coalition that has taken a lead role in opposing the enclosure of the digital commons.

Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a membership organization created to protect the right to share ideas in the electronic environment. Their site is an excellent source of news related to their many areas of concern.

Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/ The Free Software Foundation has worked since 1984 to promote the GNUproject. Useful links are available here, particularly for free software issues.

Future of Music Coalition http://www.futureofmusic.org/ The Future of Music Coalition unites members of the music, technology,policy and intellectual property law communities to promote fair policies and appropriate technologies in music.

International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP): http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/index.html A multidisciplinary organization working to develop and share scholarship andpractical experience on a broad array of commons. See in particular their Virtual Library of the Commons: http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/library.html for commons-related bibliographies, research material and online resources.

IP Justice www.ipjustice.org IP Justice is a grassroots membership organization dedicated to promoting balanced intellectual property and protecting the rights of users of information worldwide.

Public Knowledge http://www.publicknowledge.org Founded in 2001, Public Knowledge is a public-interest advocacy centre working to preserve and promote the information commons.

WIPOUT http://www.wipout.net/ Speaking truth to power? http://www.wipout.net/winners_eng.htm

The Commons Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org/ The Creative Commons is a new initiative (launched May 2002) to allow creators an easy way to make their works widely accessible for use by future creators.

Digital Library of the Commons http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, as well as full-text conference papers, dissertations, working papers and pre-prints, and reports.

Duke Law School Conference on the Public Domain http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/index.html

Free Expression Policy Project on the Information Commons http://www.fepproject.org/infocommons/intro.html

An Introduction to New Zealand Law & Sources of Legal Information http://forlover.blog.com/1263785/

The Law of the Internet in South Africa http://www.cyberlawsa.co.za/ Resources http://www.buys.co.za/newsroom_detail_cyberlaw_resources.asp

www.lawsoc.co.za www.lawlibrary.co.za

The Library of Congress has launched Web Capture http://www.loc.gov/webcapture/, a Web site devoted to information about its program to capture and preserve historically important Web sites so that they can be accessed by future generations of users

Library Student Journal http://www.librarystudentjournal.com/,

Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academiabut also lay people both in and beyond the HE community http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/

South Centre - various articles on IP issues http://www.southcentre.org/IPProject/ipindex.htm

Academy of Science - http://www.assaf.co.za

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e9f5c0f8-5ab7-11da-8628-0000779e2340.html>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e9f5c0f8-5ab7-11da-8628-0000779e2340.html

The Performing Arts Encyclopedia - http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/encyclopedia/ serves as a guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance.

Current Cites - http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2006/cc06.17.4.html

Journal Intellectual Property: http://www.intelvlas.com.ua/news_june_06_.htm (Ukrainian)

Book Trade Portal UABooks.info: http://www.uabooks.info/ua/news/news.phtml?newsid=134&action=shownews (Ukrainian)

Civic Space Internet Portal: http://www.civicua.org/news/view.html?q=817677 (Ukrainian)

National Association of Regional Development Agencies - http://www.narda.org.ua/?fuseaction=news.info&id=485&transition=1 (Ukrainian) Business portal VlasnaSprava: http://www.vlasnasprava.info/ru/business_news.html?_m=publications&_t=rec&id=5647 (Ukrainian) General portal join.co.ua: http://www.news.join.co.ua/internet/175814.html (Ukrainian)

Collecting Societies
The European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance has recently issued a decision regarding the scope of powers of a collecting society when the artists have NOT asked to be "managed". Quote from the judgment below Manon - see http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/controlador/noticia? seccion=noticia&tipoListado=all&id

Various articles
EFF Deep Links 22/11/06 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005021.php new DMCA exemptions granted

US Copyright Rulemaking on Anticircumvention http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

Developed Countries Keep Patent Harmonisation Issue Alive http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=472&res=800&print=0

Week in review: Tell it to the judge http://news.com.com/Week+in+review+Tell+it+to+the+judge/2100-1083_3-6139884.html?tag=nl.e496

Online Materials Broadening Global Access to Education Increasing number of universities offer free Internet access to course materials http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=December&x=200612010935031CJsamohT0.756817

Free market must serve, not restrain, research http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bf22d1ee-80a5-11db-9096-0000779e2340.html

DCMA Exemptions 2006: the Good, the Bad, and the Bewildering http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/734

Musical copyright terms 'to stay' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6186436.stm

Gowers leak - copyright term not extended http://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/gowers-leak-copyright-term-not-extended/

I Creative Economy for Development International Forum http://www.a2kbrasil.org.br/ENG/I-Creative-Economy-for-Development

"Wi-Fi standards face patent threat" http://www.openspectrum.info/news-nov06-023.html

ODF Alliance press release: ODF Alliance Hails Brazil, India, Italy and Poland for Recognizing OpenDocument Format http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20061128.pdf

The case against copyright creep http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/29/jonathan_zittrain_interview/

McDonald's puts patent on sandwiches http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=26183&in_page_id=34

How Do Intellectual Property Law and International Trade Agreements Affect Access to Antiretroviral Therapy? http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16881728

"Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?" http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/ital25n3.pdf

'iPod' law passed (Australia) http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20880773%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Gowers Review Report - Welcomed by Librarians and Archivists (UK) http://www.cilip.org.uk/aboutcilip/newsandpressreleases/news061208.htm?cssv=

Gower's review gives teeth to software copyright laws http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2170682/gower-review-gives-copyright

Research for sale: $5.95 - Academics take heed www.thes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?story_id=2034035

Let loose the flow of digital knowledge http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1165792209026&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

Intellectual propriety http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3002268e-8719-11db-9ad5-0000779e2340.html

New ideas about new ideas http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=148576

Copyright info on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

Berkman Center - White paper about education and copyright restrictions, entitled "The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age." See: www.cyber.law.harvard.edu or as a navigable HTML web page at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/files/copyrightandeducation.html or as a  PDF download from SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=923465

Canada sets key hearings on online music sales http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/08/21/kiernan

Do Intellectual Property Rights Help or Hinder Innovation? http://www.innovateforum.com/innovate/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=367791

NGO files lawsuit against Brazilian Publishers' Association http://www.a2kbrasil.org.br/ENG/article.php3?id_article=43

Just Whose Idea is it Anyway? http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-copyright23jul23,1,7241539.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-entnews&ctrack=1&cset=true

Australia: Cadbury Does Not Own the Colour Purple (in Australia, at least) http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=41322&email_access=on

Canada: Competition Bureau To Investigate Issues At Interface Of Competition Law And Intellectual Property http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=41152&email_access=on

Stalking the Sleeping Lion (The Lion Sleeps Tonight - South African copyright case) http://www.derebus.org.za/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=derebus:10.1048/enu

UK Music Groups Seek Copyright Licences and Levies for Digital Content http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=364&res=800&print=0 http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2729

ISPs reject calls for music tariffs http://news.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029694,49282048,00.htm

Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences : Final Report http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/digitalresourcestudy/report/

Supersize my rights by James Boyle Financial Times - April 19 2006 http://www.ft.com/boyle

IP : Copyright laws: developing countries New Copyright Act would protect intellectual property (Ghana) http://www.col.org/programmes/infoknowledge/CopyrightDoc_200505.pdf Unfortunately the copyright term was extended by 20 years. The needs of libraries and education and the legal flexibilities allowed in international IP agreements were not taken into account in this new Act.

Digital technology : Intellectual property : Copyright The Digital Black Hole http://www.tape-online.net/docs/Palm_Black_Hole.pdf

File-sharing : Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property Music swapping the old-fashioned way By Hiawatha Bray The Boston Globe – 7 May 2006 http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/07/business/swap.php

Appeal court rules on AMPS copyright dispute http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=qw1143642241856B263

This Essay Breaks the Law by M. Crichton http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html?ex=1300424400&en=9addb806498d2739&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Now you (c) it, soon you won't By Jamie King The Times February 25, 2006 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2056103,00.html The laws of copyright are being rendered meaningless by the growth of digital technology. So how will writers and artists earn a crust? Unesco Open Educational Resources - Background Notes and Summary Reports on the web site http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forums.php

Google Wages Fresh Campaign Against Critics of Project to Digitize Library Books http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/02/2006022301t.htm

Consumer organisations: Copyright pricing developing countries out of knowledge http://www.theedgedaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_92192d48-cb73c03a-15cd9c00-c575edce

The annual EFA Global Monitoring Report replaced the UNESCO World Education Report and is an important political document. http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=43283&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

James Boyle: Cultural environmentalism? Feb 20, 2006 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cc8e24ce-a242-11da-9096-0000779e2340,s01=1.html

How to calculate damages for use of unlicensed software http://www.out-law.com/page-6641

Personal use of P2P networks is legal, says French court http://www.audionautes.net/pages/PDF/audionautestgiparis.pdf See also the court’s ruling (in French) (5-page / 309KB PDF) http://www.out-law.com/page-6623

Bitamazire calls for liberal copyright law in Uganda – http://ww.newvision.co.ug/D/9/35/471710

German researchers, academics and libraries express their concern about the draft German copyright law. The Göttingen Declaration on Copyright for Education and Research of 5 July 2004 http://www.urheberrechtsbuendnis.de/index.html.en

"Imagine a world without copyright" By Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel Oct, 2005 http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/07/opinion/edsmiers.php

James Boyle: Two database cheers for the EU - January 2 2006 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/99610a50-7bb2-11da-ab8e-0000779e2340.html

Entertainment industry 'trying to hijack data retention directive' By Graeme Wearden and Karen Gomm Nov. 2005http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39238422,00.htm

Database : IP : Copyright : Intellectual Property : James Boyle: Two database cheers for the EU http://news.ft.com/cms/s/99610a50-7bb2-11da-ab8e-0000779e2340.html

Descriptive Metadata for Copyright Status (Karen Coyle) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/coyle/index.html

Copyright : France votes for legal P2P http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17649070%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property; Progress versus copyright http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060104.gtjkcolumnjan4/BNStory/Technology/

The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media, says Andreas Kluth. That will profoundly change both the media industry and society as a whole. http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794156

It's the links, stupid Blogging is just another word for having conversations. http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794172

What the UK Government has done for intellectual property - Out-Law News 26/04/06 http://www.out-law.com/page-6870

Barker, Garry. "Court Opens Pandora's Computer Box", The Age, 7 October 2005, http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/court-opens-pandoras-computer-copyright-box/2005/10/06/1128562943608.html

Russia, Limanov and copyright http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/06/02/russia-limonov-and-copyright

IP : Intellectual Property: Consumer organisations: Copyright pricing developing countries out of knowledge http://www.theedgedaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_92192d48-cb73c03a-15cd9c00-c575edce

Images - Copyright http://www.publishsa.co.za/copyright.htm

EU: Commission unveils plans for European digital libraries http://copyrightandculture.com/main.php?page=news/10_05/eu_plan_digital_libraries

The Cathedral and the Bazaar, an essay by Eric S. Raymond http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

Education and development on the high seas of copyright infringement When is a pirate not as pirate? http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-commons/icommons_3664.jsp

James Boyle: Constitutional circumvention http://news.ft.com/cms/s/fa07af4a-fadc-11da-b4d0-0000779e2340.html

Downloads: Germany: Copyright: Piracy: Intellectual Property : IP; Two years in prison for downloading latest film (Germany) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2100973,00.html

French Assembly approves legislative threat to iTunes http://www.out-law.com/page-6763

French plan would open iTunes to other devices http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2006-03-13T184438Z_01_L10436201_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-FRANCE-COPYRIGHTS.xml

Germany : Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property: Education: Universities see “Disastrous Effects” for Education, Science in German Copyright Reform http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=256&res=800&print=0 The book can be ordered at http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/

Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property The Martin Luther King Speeches: Why Can't We Copy Them? http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rev_bill_060226_the_martin_luther_ki.htm

Google could be forced to change its image search service following a court ruling in the US. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4742382.stm

Computer programs : Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property: Infringement Appeal Court rules on AMPS copyright dispute http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=qw1143642241856B263

Guidelines for audiovisual and multimedia materials in libraries" can be downloaded in Croatian, English, French, German, Korean, Norwegian, Russian and Spanish from: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s35/

This piece of news related to US Librarians and the Patriot Act, from the New York Times, follows on the FAIFE session held in Oslo last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/nyregion/31library.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Court rules that an email address is not a signature - Out-Law News 13/04/06 http://www.out-law.com/page-6839 E-books turning over a new leaf Seeing a 30-40 per cent growth in e-books year on year, publishers are hoping the e-book’s time may have finally come. FT Digital Business, p1, 12 April 2006 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c5c44f06-c970-11da-94ca-0000779e2340.html

New copyright law to protect musicians http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Business/biz1206062.htm http://www.eifl.net/services/ipcis_pr.html

http://copyrightkitchen.flexiblelearning.net.au/main.php

"Sweden convicts first file-sharer" A Swedish court has meted out the country's first conviction for using a file-sharing network. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4376470.stm

Japanese music industry calls for an ‘iPod’ tax’ – http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/09/business/ipod.php Flexible copyright to nurture a creative milieu http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/26/business/copy.php

Kenya: Country Cracks Down On Firms Using Pirated Software http://allafrica.com/stories/200606260454.html

Descriptive Metadata for Copyright Status (Karen Coyle) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/coyle/index.html

Copyright : France votes for legal P2P http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17649070%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property; Progress versus copyright http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060104.gtjkcolumnjan4/BNStory/Technology/

Piracy : Copyright : RIAA's next big target: Russia http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051227-5849.html

DATAD : IP : Intellectual Property : Intellectual Property, Governance, Dissemination and Funding Strategies: http://www.aau.org/datad/cip/docs/DATAD_workshop_report.pdf

Uganda : Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property Bitamazire calls for liberal copyright law http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/9/35/471710

The RIAA vs. the EFF: who will redefine copyright for the digital age http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060418-6626.html

The Chinese Government has launched a new initiative to help a third of the country's village committees to establish libraries by donating books over the next five years. The move is seen as necessary to address the information gap China’s fast-developing knowledge economy. China View 19/04/06 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/19/content_4447725.htm

Copyright : Vatican : IP : Intellectual Property Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2005615,00.html

IP : Intellectual Property : Google : Defenders of Property Rights Urges Congress to Protect Innovative Google Book Search Tool http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060118/dcw048.html?.v=33

Intellectual Property: IP : Copyright http://www.southcentre.org/IPProject/ipindex.htm Google Cache Ruled Fair Use http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004344.php US Presses China For Info On Intellectual Property Rights http://www.thebusinessonline.com/DJStory.aspx?DJStoryID=20060124DN015600

Conferences - 2006/7
Fourth Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning - Jamaica Oct/Nov 2006 For conference papers - see: http://pcf4.dec.uwi.edu/papers.php For papers on copyright and related issues: http://pcf4.dec.uwi.edu/search.php See titles below :

The three-step test within the copyright system Tobias Schonwetter

Copyright: Athabasca University sponsored panel Frits Pannekoek; Rory McGreal, Research Centre, Athabasca University Gordon Naidoo, Open Learning Systems Education Trust (OLSET) Santosh K Panda, Indira Gandhi National Open University Anne Forster, The University of Sydney

Copyright - Are people with sensory-disabilities getting a fair deal? Denise Rosemary Nicholson (presented by Dick Kawooya)

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Panel on Copyright Jorgen Blomqvist

Theorizing and Practicing Fair Use: Copyright Challenges for Africa's Higher Education Dick Kawooya

International agreements, national fair use legislation and copyright royalty collection agents Julien Hofman (presented by Tobias Schonwetter)

Open University of Hong Kong panel: Steering clear of copyright roadblocks in developing open and distance learning materials K.S. Yuen Peter Cheung, Government of Hong Kong

How to Bridge the Digital Divide? Jennifer Evans Judi Walker, Faculty of Health Science, University of Tasmania Jo Osborne, Faculty of Health Science, University of Tasmania Valentine Hazelman, Centre for Educational Development and Technology, University of the South Pacific

The ETD 2006 Conference Committee is pleased to annnounce that theproceedings of ETD 2006, the 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations are now available on the conference website at http://www6.bibl.ulaval.ca:8080/etd2006/pages/prog.jsf IP Conferences - 2007 http://www.ipmenu.com/conferences.htm#2007 International Association of Consumer Law: 11th International Conference on Consumer Law - Cape Town - April 11-13, 2007 See information at : www.iacl.ca Consumerism, Citizenship and Consumer Rights: Retrospective and Prospects for Consumer Law and Policy Consumer law and policy has been intimately tied to economic and social rights in countries of the North and South. But have consumer rights been significant in redistributing power or resources in society and what is their connection to the contemporary global restructuring of business and the rise of neo-liberalism? Papers are invited on all aspects of consumer law and policy related to these themes.

Plagiarism
Faculty divided on use of plagiarism software http://www.laloyolan.com/media/storage/paper803/news/2006/11/20/News/Faculty.Divided.On.Use.Of.Plagiarism.Software-2469358.shtml?norewrite200611210139&sourcedomain=www.laloyolan.com

Tales of plagiarism and atonement Comment on the plagiarism debate in literature. http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2054572.ece

Recluse speaks out to defend McEwan - The borrowers: 'why McEwan is no plagiarist' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/05/nwriters105.xml Even Shakespeare and Tolstoy would be in trouble: what the writers say http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/05/nquotes105.xml

Now Russian sues Brown over his Da Vinci Code - April 2006 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2129945.html

Why The Da Vinci Code lawsuit failed http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2006/719.html April 2006 http://www.out-law.com/page-6828 Brown wins Da Vinci Code case April 2006 http://books.guardian.co.uk/danbrown/story/0,,1749361,00.html

Still to be categorised:
Intellectual Property and Access to ART: Unwise Choice of Terminology http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030509

Poland scuppers EU software patent directive http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/poland_vote_against/

"KM Cyberary" - a gateway to Knowledge Resources: http://www.bhojarajug.freeservers.com/cyberary.html

The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries http://www.istl.org/05-spring/article2.html

IP Justice Broadcasting Treaty Page: http://ipjustice.org/wp/campaigns/wipo/wipo-broadcasting-treaty Decision of 42nd WIPO General Assembly on Broadcast Treaty: http://ipjustice.org/wp/2006/10/02/wipo-general-assembly-decision-on-broadcast-treaty IP Justice Statement at 42nd WIPO General Assembly: http://ipjustice.org/wp/2006/09/27/ip-justice-statement-at-wipo-42nd-general-assembly IP Justice Report from 15th SCCR Meeting: http://ipjustice.org/wp/2006/09/13/328/

Inside Views: Interview With Gilberto Gil, Brazil’s Culture Minister http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060925.html

Questions Raised Over Proposed WIPO Secretariat Deals With FAO, IDB http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=411&res=800&print=0

Inside Views: Should The Developing World Copy To ‘Catch Up’ With Developed Countries? http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=406&res=1024_ff&print=0

British Library launches IP manifesto http://www.bl.uk/news/2006/pressrelease20060925.html

A day for intellectual property, copyright and culture://www.common-info.org.uk/thoughts/archives/2005/02/a_day_for_intel.html

Patenting insurance innovations http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=42458&email_access=on

Parody as Fair Use * an interesting and entertaining aspect of copyr ight law http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians/livewire/2006/7.1/copyright.html

The Book Stops Here http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki_pr.html

IP Justice Submission to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum 2 August 2006 - http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/IPJustice_IGF_Submission_2August2006.doc

International Information Literacy Resources Directory: http://www.uv.mx/usbi_ver/unesco

Strong IP regime not in interest of developing countries http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/twr171k.htm

Strong Intellectual Property Protection Benefits the Developing Countries (National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade http://www.natlaw.com/pubs/spmxip11.htm

TV, music copying laws may be eased (Australia) http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/TV-music-copying-laws-may-be-eased/2005/02/14/1108229936580.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation Balks at Digital Copyright Law http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=9067

The Idea Economy: Battle over right to sell knowledge http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/02/business/IPRpatents.php

Old books only in European Digital Library, http://euobserver.com/871/22383

Australia: Australian Copyright Law Limps Into The New Age http://www.mondaq.com/news.asp?e=1&a=43670

"Researchers in Patent Catch-22", ABC Science Online, Friday 28 January 2005, http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1290889.htm "The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age"         http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=923465

Eric von Hippel's seminal books on innovation, "Democratizing Innovation"(2005) and "The Sources of Innovation"(1988) can be downloaded free of charge from his homepage: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/books.htm

Public Domain & Open Standards discussion at WIPO: What did Mexico, India, Chile and Australia say? http://fromgeneva.blogspot.com/2006/07/public-domain-open-standards.html

Free access to research is proving more expensive than hoped. But it is spreading, nevertheless http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7109062

In Digital Age, Advancing a Flexible Copyright System http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/26crea.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Think Standards Are Boring? Think Again! http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5042920

US Government On Internet Control: ICANN Can Go, IANA Is Ours http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=375&res=1024_ff&print=0#comments

India: Traditional Knowledge And Intellectual Property http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=44198&email_access=on&login=true

Software patents back to haunt Europe http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/22/europe_patent/

Developed Countries Keep Patent Harmonisation Issue Alive http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=472&res=800&print=0

Politics of information & knowledge in Africa The struggle for an information inclusive society in a globalised world. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007569/

The Economy of Ideas Selling Wine Without Bottles on the Global Net http://wewearbuildings.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/john-perry-barlow-the-economy-of-ideas-selling-wine-without-bottles-on-the-global-net/

Effective Methods for Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Undergraduate Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Evidence Based Library and Information http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007655/

"APC Internet Rights Charter": http://rights.apc.org/charter.shtml Download the charter: http://rights.apc.org/documents/apc_charter_A4.pdf

Developed Country Strategy On WIPO Development Agenda, Governance Revealed - http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=449&res=800&print=0

The search for influence: Google becomes a political player http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1929781,00.html

Royal Society response to the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/8443

Piracy stats don't add up http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20713160%5E15306,00.html

Scholarpedia is a wiki form of open access First "free peer reviewed encyclopedia" http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2006/11/scholarpedia_is.html

Group B+ Draft Patent Harmonisation Treaty Emerges http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=448&res=800&print=0

Spanish court rules free music downloads are legal for own use http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,1938301,00.html

New laws may 'cripple' online searching http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1782275.htm

Anticircumvention and Anti-anticircumvention http://ssrn.com/abstract=931899

Five Disharmonizing Trends in the International Intellectual Property Regime - http://ssrn.com/abstract=923177

Intellectual Property http://www.eff.org/IP

Developed Countries Seek To Elevate Enforcement Measures In TRIPS Council - http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=432&res=800&print=0

Key issues for African Union Summit http://www.scidev.net/opinions/index.cfm?fuseaction=readopinions&itemid=529&langauge=1&CFID=4692733&CFTOKEN=43614256

UK report: knowledge should be public good first, private right second http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061102-8133.html

Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/ital25n3.pdf

BPI plans direct authorisation for CD copying http://www.out-law.com/page-7463

The search for influence: Google becomes a political player http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1929781,00.html

Exploring the role of ICTs in addressing educational needs: identifying the myths and the miracles http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/4042

Alliance demands end to US-Malaysia pact http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8L2P5880.htm

A unique Indian experiment in online publishing http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/article_1213501.php/A_unique_Indian_experiment_in_online_publishing

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) lobbies Gowers for 'a private right to copy' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/10/bpi_to_legalise_cd_copying/

US to take steps to check Bollywood piracy http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200611121222.htm

United Kingdom: Electronic Databases: Protecting Your Investment: An Analysis Of The Legal Rights In Electronic Databases Under UK Law http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=44300&searchresults=1

Poddies copyright crooks http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20792269%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

GoogleNewsStrugglesInScandinavia. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20061120

Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

Intellecual Property Rights section of the Cariforum EC-EPA at http://www.bilaterals.org/IMG/doc/EC_non-paper_on_IPRs_text_for_EPA.doc

Regional Issues (Economic Partnership Agreements) http://www.eusa.org.za/trade/Regional.htm

How EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) could harm the developments prospects of many of the world's poorest countries. http://www.oxfam.org.nz/imgs/whatwedo/mtf/unequal%20partners.pdf

ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements: Implications for Ghana and other ECOWAS countries http://www.foeghana.org/trade_environment/impacts_ecowas.pdf

ScienceDirect http://info.sciencedirect.com/news/press_releases/archive/archive2006/redesign.asp - being redesigned to improve researcher productivity by making relevant full–text content easier to access (June 2006)

Changes in Uzbekistan's copyright laws http://news.uzreport.com/uzb.cgi?lan=e&id=12748

What is copyright? Marcel Marceau mimes the response (video film, 4'44) mms://telesto.unesco.org/vod/copyright_marceau_en.wmv

African Internet users pay on average 90 times what Americans pay, crippling efforts by the world's poorest continent to become competitive http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/05/18/africa.web.cost.ap/index.html

DRMs Sony BMG to 'remove protection software' http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1148387042744B253

SA Software industry in crisis? The citation is: Haupt v Brewers Marketing Intelligence (Pty) Ltd [2006]SCA 39 (RSA).

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=79&art_id=qw11483325044 03B243&newslett=1&em=37412a6a20060523ah

Copyright and Access to Knowledge http://219.93.191.226:443/a2k/documents/a2k-report.pdf

Effect of Open Access on African Journals Funding and Sustainability http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/viewabstract.php?id=47

Sony BMG to 'remove protection software' http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1148387042744B253

CODESRIA promotes open access - www.codesria.org

'From "Publish or Perish" to "Publish and Vanish" (Christina Scott) http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33219

The full " Report on a Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa" can be found at : http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publishing.pdf

Copyright reforms strike a balance in Oz Fairer for users but tougher on pirates By Sally Hawkins http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/16/oz_copyright_reforms/16th May 2006

"Of Monks, Medieval Scribes, and Middlemen" (P.Yu) - http://ssrn.com/abstract=897710. It compares the Gutenberg press to the Internet and touches on access to information and knowledge today. (To access the article, you may need to register temporarily on the said website)

New Copyright Act would protect intellectual property (Ghana) http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=103870 The copyright term was extended by 20 years. The needs of libraries and education and the legal flexibilities allowed in international IP agreements were not taken into account in this new Act.

Young pirate has France's ear By Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/14/business/audionaut15.php

EDRI-gram Report on WIPO general assemblies (5.10.2005) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number3.20/WIPO

Counterfeiting and piracy: Commission proposes criminal law provisions to combat intellectual property offences http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/532&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Union. Regulation recently adopted to enable the export of patented medicines to poor countries http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/controlador/noticia?seccion=noticia&tipoListado=all&id=0000005915&len=en&mode=subscription

Australia is not maximising the return on its research investment - maximising research impact by mandating institutional self-archiving http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/papers/143harnad.pdf

Microsoft to give Office access to rivals By Maija Palmer in London November 2005 http://mwprices.ft.com/custom/ft-com/quotechartnews.asp?FTSite=FTCOM&q=MSFT&searchtype&expanded=&countrycode=us&s2=us&symb=MSFT&com

Owning ideas http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5337079-103677,00.html

Law & Internet Cultures - a review http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/internet_3038.jsp

IP : Intellectual Property : Some materials of Intellectual Property in the National Academies http://ip.nationalacademies.org/ http://www.nap.edu

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