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Copyright archives - 2004

Libraries

'The Quiet Struggle' by Paul Sturges and Richard Neill http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/psturges.html

TAPE project: Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe - http://www.tape-online.net

Limits of drafting one-sided agreements http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/37594.html

Librarians, lecturers, scholars and students are encouraged to use it freely, providing that if all or parts of it are re-used elsewhere, full credit is given to the authors.

The Canadian Library Association: http://www.cla.ca/copyright/ WorldCat - http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/default.htm

Libraries, copyright and the global digital environment http://ariel.emeraldinsight.com/vl=503929/cl=96/nw=1/fm=html/rpsv/cw/mcb/02640473/v22n6/s3/p487

The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats" http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub127/pub127.pdf

Implementing preservation repositories for digital materials : current practice and emerging trends in the cultural heritage community (OCLC/RLG): http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/surveyreport.pdf

Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html

Old Wine new bottles (you can now sign a contract online) http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1540735,00.html

Two interesting articles in "Managing Information" (ISSN 1352-0229) -Jan/Feb 2003 issue

European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD

Berkman Center (Harvard Law School's paper on the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD). It looks at the current state of implementation of the EUCD, with particular emphasis on the technological protection measures sections. You can find the paper, further resources, including an interactive chart, at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/eucd

Free Trade Agreements and IP

SA near to clinching another trade deal http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=1006 (SACU’s deal with Efta will be a scaled-down version of the original: Efta members have agreed to Sacu’s request to shelve complex issues such as government procurement, intellectual property and investment) Information on other Free Trade Agreements, see www.bilaterals.org

Australia/US Free Trade Agreement : FTA : AU/US FTA : IP : intellectual property : copyright FTA Fears Growing (Sue Bushell CIO) : http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;353380446;fp;4;fpid;21l The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement - An Assessment (Dr. P. De, APSEG, Australian National Library) http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/freetrade_ctte/report/DeeftaReport.pdf

Fair Use/Fair Dealing

Fair dealing (in various countries) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing

UK and UK-derived 'fair dealing" http://www.cityu.edu.hk/cityutoday/news/category/ideas/roundtable/n20011113_04.htm

The US style 'fair use' http://www.cityu.edu.hk/cityutoday/news/category/ideas/roundtable/n20011113_02.htm

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

Intellectual property and basic research: discovery vs. invention http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_basicresearch.html

Copyright

Is copyright necessary? (Terry Maxwell) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/maxwell/index.html

Copying from TV Enhance's explanation of Australian rights for educational institutions for copying from TV. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/extras/copying.htm

Screenrights The organisation that licences Australian schools to enable them to copy from TV. http://www.screen.org/

Mandela marks his brand http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1622552,00.html

"Madiba marks his brand" (Response by Heather Ford of Creative Commons SA) http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2004/11/18/who-owns-madibas-name/

Digital is not different www.ifla.org/V/press/copydig.htm

Rooibos battle rages on (copyright matter) http://www.finance24.co.za/Finance/Companies/0,,1518-24_1540007,00.html

IBM faces copyright infringement suit http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-5229785.html

Pirate DVD mastermind nabbed http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1540021,00.html (Any person found in possession of illicit DVDs could face a fine of R5 000 or three years' imprisonment for each one. )

Anti-piracy law heads for EU vote http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5161981.html?tag=nefd_top

World first as copyright laws protect perfume perfumehttp://www.star.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=2171955A

Students fight copyright hoarders http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65616,00.html?tw=wn_story_mailer

Software Should Not Be Copyrighted -- Lawsuit By Andy Sullivan Tue Dec 14, 2004 02:01 AM ET http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7083753&pageNumber=1

Rimmer, M. "Never Neverland: Peter Pan and Perpetual Copyright", Incite, December 2004, Vol. 25 (12), http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/2004/12/copyright.html

Stealing the Goose: Copyright and Learning( Rory McGreal) http://www.irrodl.org/content/v5.3/mcgreal.html

James Boyle : a Natural Experiment http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4cd4941e-3cab-11d9-bb7b-00000e2511c8.html

Development needs 'override intellectual property protection' http://news.ft.com/cms/s/87d93e54-127e-11d9-863e-00000e2511c8.htmli

Copyright enters as gray area http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62276,00.html

Diebold Loses Key Copyright Case http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65173,00.html

Protecting Ourselves to Death: Canada, Copyright & the Internet (by Laura Murray) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/murray/index.html

Intellectual honesty in the Electronic age http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/~jiliff/iliff_xiao.htm

Bioprospecting: legitimate research or 'biopiracy'? http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_bioprospecting.html

Copyright Issues in Digital Media (US Congressional Budget Office) http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5738&sequence=0&from=0#anchor

Disney fights back in SA Copyright Case http://mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=121006

Peter Pan copyright http://www.gosh.org/about_us/peterpan/copyright.html

Music industry takes hit in court http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040701/INTERNET01/TPNationa

In-House Advice from The New York Times Editorials : http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/opinion/17tue3.html?ex=1093730379&ei=1&en=d462299b0e844316

Facing the music : the restoration of copyright (By M. Rimmer) http://alia.org.au/publishing/incite/2004/05/free.trade.html

Canadian Ruling on Song Swapping Sends Aftershocks http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33303.html

Kazaa Wins Procedural Victory in Aussie Court http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33853.html

'Copycat' magazine sets off legal row http://www.suntimes.co.za/2004/05/23/business/news/news19.asp

"To link or not to link: Hyperlinks, liabilities and responsibilities" by M. Battisti - www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/034e_trans-Battisti.pdf

Elsevier further liberalizes copyright for authors http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00145

IBM faces copyright infringement suit http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-5229785.html

Useful website on copyright http://www.surf.nl/copyright/keyissues/scholarlycommunication/policies.php

"A federal jury in Baltimore levied a $20 million penalty against financial services firm Legg Mason Inc. for illegally distributing a copyrighted investment newsletter to its employees." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53416-2003Oct6.html

The state of copyright activism by Siva Vaidhyanathan see: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/siva/

Copyright Policies

Stanford's copyright policy: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/rph/5-2.html#Sec1 http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/Resources/ip.html

Rice University, Texas, US - http://cnx.rice.edu/

MIT: http://ocw.mit.org

Persons with disabilities

Guidelines on the Keele University (UK)'s website useful, when assisting people with one or more disabilities. See: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/disabilityservices/needs/guidlines.htm

Disabled : Blind : Disabilities : Visually-Impaired : Perceptually-impaired : Sensory-disabled " The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights conflict and Access to Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities" by George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman http://www.daisy.org/publications/docs/soundproof/sound_proof_book.html

TRIPS

TRIPS and its impact on developing countries http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_trips.html

IFLA Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters' Guide to librarians on TRIPS by IFLA "Tips for TRIPS" - http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/p1/tt-e.htm

What impact do IPR rules have on food security? http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_foodsecurity.html

IPR rules and human rights: is there a conflict? http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_humanrights.html

TRIPS-Plus

Multilateral agreements and a TRIPS-plus world: The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) ((Sisule Musungu & Graham Dutfield) - see : http://www.geneva.quno.info/pdf/WIPO(A4)final0304.pdf.

Copyright - by country

South African Copyright Act http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/file_download.php/47f393caa633c1d051c87045ba9a2d26Copyright_Act_1978.pdf

Patents

Report Says Patents Threaten Software Innovation http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/23/1213222&tid=155&tid=1

Are patent rules compatible with access to essential medicines in developing countries? http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_medicines.html

Does the Patent System Need an Overhaul? By SABRA CHARTRAND, NY Times, Sept. 27, 2004 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/27/technology/27patent.html?th

Orphaned Works

Saving the Artistic Orphans By Katie Dean Wired.com - Sep. 20, 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64494,00.html

Rimmer, M. "The Internet Archive: The Copyright Term and Orphaned Works", Incite, June 2004, Vol. 25 (6), http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/2004/06/internet.archive.html

WIPO

Manifesto on WIPO

A Manifesto on WIPO and the future of intellectual property (by James Boyle) http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2004dltr0009.html

Canadian Library Association's update on the GATS negotiations and its implications for public sector libraries : http://www.cla.ca/issues/gats_update_gould.pdf

Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide by Michael Gurstein : http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/gurstein/

Committee for Economic Development's Report Urges Balanced Approach on Digital Intellectual Property Issues to Promote Economic Growth

The Summary Report: http://www.ced.org/docs/summary/summary_dcc.pdf The Full report : http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_dcc.pdf

http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html Science must 'push copyright aside' Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project

Genes and Ingenuity: Gene patenting and human health (ALRC 99) http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/title/alrc99/index.html

noticed that WIPO recently put up a Global IP guide:

 http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/ipworldwide/country.htm

Papers delivered at the session on "Balance of copyright and licensing: access > to information for print handicapped people" at the IFLA Conference in Buenos > Aires (August 2004):- > > Copyright exceptions for the visually impaired - international perspective > (Geidy Lung, WIPO) > http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/177e-Lung.pdf > > Copyright protection as access barrier for people who read differently: the > case for an international approach (Dr. Johan Roos, Director,SA Library for > the Blind) > http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/147e-Roos.pdf > > Copyright: how can barriers to access be removed? An action plan for the > removal of some copyright barriers that prevent equitable access to > information by people with print disabilities (S. King and D. Mann) > http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/173e-King_Mann.pdf > > Towards the ideal: steps to improve access (V. Owen) > http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/121e-Owen.pdf >

You may like to look at the virtual resources of the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright, University of Maryland University College <http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/>

The Center's site gathers supportive information for those in higher education on issues of copyright, scholarly publishing and related laws and legislative actions.

Although this is a USA case and rather lengthy, you may like to look at Universal City Studios v Corley 273 F.3d 429 at http://digital-law-online.info/cases/60PQ2D1953.htm)

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=582602

You might like to look at some of these papers on the EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations) website :

http://www.eblida.org/cecup/docs/frdocs.htm http://www.eblida.org/position.htm

Also, an article by Teresa Hackett, Director, EBLIDA, which she wrote immediately after adopting the copyright directive in the European Union: http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/record/r200104/article2.html

You may be interested in reading the discussions around Collective Management of Copyright and neighbouring rights, as well as the contents of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2001 (sections 1 and 9 only) , which is currently before Parliament. See : http://www.pmg.org.za/viewminute.asp?id=917.

If you cannot access this particular URL directly, try going into the Parliamentary Monitoring Group's website first at www.pmg.org.za and register and then access this information.

Copyright Amendment Bill; Performers' Protection Amendment Bill: hearings 9 and 10 October 2001 Minutes of the above committee meeting are now available at http://www.pmg.org.za/minutes.asp

Colleagues in the UK have informed me today that the Copyright Tribunal Decision has been made in favour of the Higher Education Institutions.

The decision is now available for viewing, downloading and printing at the following URL: www.patent.gov.uk/copy/tribunal/tribnews4.htm.

For future reference, there is also a link on the webpages of the Copyright in Higher Education Workgroup( CHEW) http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/copyright/ctref.html.

Note that the UK flat rate will be 4 Pounds per student, which is equivalent to R66.63 (today's exchange rate).

   Writers, Artists, and their Copyright Holders (WATCH) -
   http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/watch/watch.html 
       Search the WATCH file to find contact information for
       the copyright holders of authors and artists whose works
       can be found in libraries and archives across North
       America and the United Kingdom. Useful for scholars
       and researchers who may need to obtain permission to
       publish works still protected by copyright. WATCH is
       jointly produced by the Harry Ransom Humanities
       Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin
       and the University of Reading Library, Reading,
       England. - shb 
       Subjects: Copyright – Databases

http://www.dcita.gov.au/nsapi-text/?MIval=dca_dispdoc&ID=3287

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1768268^421,00.html.

Some interesting information on the following website, including that of the Copyright Tribunal matter between the CLA and the Higher Education Institutions (a decision on the matter is expected sometime in September 2001):

http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/copyright/index.html

Prof. C. Oppenheim of Loughborough University, UK (speaker at the recent SAOUG Conference) referred me to the following website which you may also find interesting : http://www.la-hq.org.uk/groups/laca/laca4.html

http://groton.k12ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm (Copyright Resources on the Internet] http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html#Contents [Fair Use in Education] http://www.nmjc.cc.nm.us/copyrightbay/ [this one includes an excellent list of other sites] http://www.benedict.com/ [the Copyright Website] http://www.templetons.com/brad//copymyths.html [10 Big Myths About Copyright] http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/copyright/ [Copyright Information Page] http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/Copyright/ereserves.htm [for music educators] http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/home.html [Copyright Management Center-Indiana University-Purdue University]

Recently the President of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Christine Deschamps, visited South Africa and gave a talk on copyright at Wits University on 12 October 2000.

Her talk on "IFLA's position on copyright in the digital environment" can be found at: http://www.ifla.org/V/press/copydig.htm

Disney fights back in SA Copyright Case http://mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=121006

Interesting article at

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/copyrights/2000-07/0009.html 

Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) in the UK have just informed the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) that it will ask the Copyright Tribunal (CT) to determine the terms, costs, and conditions of the future licence and HECA agreement. There is obviously

dissatisfaction in the UK regarding licensing costs and conditions.

Intellectual Property Rights in South Africa : An economic review of policy and impact (Teljeur E, 2002)(The Edge Institute) http://www.the-edge.org.za/pdf/Intellectual%20property%20Rights.pdf

Scientific output: the real 'knowledge divide' http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=122&language=1 A new international study of scientific publications shows that the gap in scientific output between developed and developing countries is even greater than the gap in inputs (i.e. research spending).

China, Brazil and India lead southern science output http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1498&language=1

The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library

Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats"

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub127/pub127.pdf

The primacy of authors in achieving Open Access http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/24.html

Music industry takes hit in court http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040701/INTERNET01/TPNationa

http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/query_en.htm Industrial property: EC joins international trademark treaty

The European Community is submitting today to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol on the international registration of trademarks. It is the first time that the EC as such accedes to a WIPO treaty.

IBM faces copyright infringement suit http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-5229785.html

Old Wine new bottles (you can now sign a contract online) http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1540735,00.html

Rooibos battle rages on (copyright matter) http://www.finance24.co.za/Finance/Companies/0,,1518-24_1540007,00.html

Pirate DVD mastermind nabbed http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1540021,00.html (Any person found in possession of illicit DVDs could face a fine of R5 000 or three years' imprisonment for each one.

Hyperlinking ... http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/034e_trans-Battisti.pdf

My 2 IFLA papers : http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/038-134e.pdf http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/059e-Nicholson.pdf

Alan Story's article "Burn Berne https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/undergraduate/modules/ip/resources/Story%20-%20Burn%20Berne%202003.doc

Accra Declaration on GATS and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa http://www.aau.org/wto-gats/declaration.htm

Canadian Ruling on Song Swapping Sends Aftershocks http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33303.html

Kazaa Wins Procedural Victory in Aussie Court http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33853.html

'Copycat' magazine sets off legal row http://www.suntimes.co.za/2004/05/23/business/news/news19.asp

Web links leave abstracts going nowhere http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/Dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v428/n6983/full/428592a_fs.html Research published on the Internet may 'get lost' when web addresses change. (Source: Nature) ]

Article by Alan Story, Copyright expert at Kent University, UK : "Burn Berne : why the leading international copyright convention must be repealed ." https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/undergraduate/modules/ip/resources/Articles.htm#COPYRIGHT

The Kent University website has many other interesting articles on copyright - See: https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/undergraduate/modules/ip/resources/Articles.htm#COPYRIGHT

The Draft Convergence Bill (published in Government Gazette No. 25806 dated 3 December 2003 - and online at http://www.gov.za/gazette/bills/2003/25806.pdf) proposes a move away from the current licensing system in SA based on the nature of the technology (e.g. television, cell phone and Internet) to a system based on the nature of the service being offered.

JISC/PA (UK) - Guidelines www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/fair/intro.html

IFLA/IPA: 'Publishers and Librarians promote common principles on copyright in the electronic environment' - www.ifla.org/V/press/ifla-ipa.htm

Fair use : education : fair dealing : electronic media: educational media ADEC : 'Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia' - www.adec.edu/admin/papers/fair10-17html

European Accessible Information Network http://www.euain.org/

Digital Donnybrook http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2432

IP : intellectual property : The Tyranny of Copyright? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25COPYRIGHT.html?ex=1076549461&ei=1&en=7278f5ec51d1a8bb

IP : intellectual property : copyright compliance Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright A Template for the Promotion of Awareness See http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/publications/00-3copyright.html

The BBC's Mark Ashurst reports from Brazil, where the global battle between Microsoft and the free software movement is at its fiercest. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/business/3445805.stm >

Stop the FTAA Information Lockdown http://www.ipjustice.org/FTAA//santodomingo.shtml

Piracy, price discrimination and development : the software sector in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets http://www.stlr.org/html/volume5/cosovanu.txt

"Protecting Civil Liberties, Competition and Innovation in the EU Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive"

http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/eustatement.shtml

Websites, hyperlinking, etc. at www.ifla.org/IV.ifla69/papers/034e_trans-Battisti.pdf

The SA Copyright Act is not on the Government website and is not easily accessible in print. There is now an online version at : http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/file_download.php/47f393caa633c1d051c87045ba9a2d26Copyright_Act_1978.pdf You can also see copyright laws of other countries at : http://www.unesco.org/culture/copyrightlaws

Disabled : Disabilities : Blind : IP : intellectual property : Copyright exceptions The text of the Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons Act) 2002 is at http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2002/20020033.htm This will allow certain additional exceptions to copyright to enable for the most part the copying of any material (not just born print materials) from its original into an alternative format usable by the VIP.

IP : intellectual property : "Libraries caught in copyright changes" By Fergus Shiel at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/10/1076388365432.html

Zwolle Conference 2004 http://www.surf.nl/copyright/zwolle/2004feb/program.php

SURF's Copyright website at www.surf.nl/copyright

Papers presented at the World Library and Information Congress in Berlin:

   a.. "Newspaper copyright developments: a European Union and United Kingdom perspective " - http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/022e-Oppenheim.pdf 
   b.. "What has copyright got to do with newspapers - a SA perspective"  - http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/059e-Nicholson.pdf (my paper)
   c.. "Copyright or contract: the 2002 review in Australia" - http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/101e-Cochrane.pdf 
   d.. "To link or not to link: Hyperlinks, liabilities and responsibilities" - http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/034e_trans-Battisti.pdf

Copyright : IP : intellectual property : infringement : piracy Anti-piracy law heads for EU vote http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5161981.html?tag=nefd_top

D. Nicholson’s IFLA papers :http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/059e-Nicholson.pdf http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/038-134e.pdf

Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy By JOHN SCHWARTZ - NY Times - March 1, 2004 The entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy, according to a new report. Full Story: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2004/03/01/technology/01rights.html&tntemail0 or http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2004/03/01/technology/01rights.

Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide by Michael Gurstein : http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/gurstein/

Article "The Digital Black Hole" by Jonas Palm, National Archives of Sweden, now online The article presents an analysis of costs for digitizing and long-term storage at the Riksarkivet (National Archives, RA) in Stockholm, Sweden. This example includes forecasts of cost development for the next few years which may help other institutions in analysing their own costs and budgeting for long-term storage. To download the article go to: http://www.tape-online.net/docs/Palm_Black_Hole.pdf The author: Jonas Palm is Director, Head of the Preservation Department, National Archives of Sweden, Stockholm jonas.palm@riksarkivet.ra.se

Committee for Economic Development's Report Urges Balanced Approach on Digital Intellectual Property Issues to Promote Economic Growth - The Summary Report: http://www.ced.org/docs/summary/summary_dcc.pdf The Full report : http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_dcc.pdf

Copyright -- Infringement -- Photocopying -- Fax transmissions - Canadian Law Society case : copyright : IP : intellectual property http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/rec/html/2004scc013.wpd.html

CODE Rally Info: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/rally.shtml

Campaign for an Open Digital Environment (CODE): http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE

Text of Proposed EU IP Rights Enforcement Directive: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/021604.html

Alberto Cottica Statement: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/cottica_stmt.html

Michael Franti Statement: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/Franti_stmt.html

John Perry Barlow Statement: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/Barlow_stmnt.html

Word doc of all 3 Artist Statements: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/artist_opposition.doc

IP Justice's Top 8 Reasons to Reject the EU IP Rights Enforcement Directive: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/release20040302_en.shtml#top8

MEP Marco Cappato Declaration: http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/Cappato_Declaration.html

FIPR/Cappato Amendments: http://www.ffii.org.uk/ip_enforce/andreas2.html http://www.ipjustice.org/CODE/FIPR_Cappato_Amendments.doc

Copyright : Intellectual property : European Union EU IP Directive : http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/04/316%7C0%7CRAPID&lg=EN&display=

File swapping : European Union : copyright : IP : piracy : infringement : Intellectual Property No criminal sanctions for file swappers in EU vote http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0309nocrimi.html

“ Article - Whose “information society”?

Was WSIS worth it? The general verdict on the recent United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in December 2003 was a thumbs-down. The Summit outcomes were limited after an arduous and expensive process. However, argues Anriette Esterhuysen, APC's executive director, from the perspective of many civil society organisations that participated actively, the WSIS has created a new opportunity for solidarity across ideological, sectoral and geographical divides. - APCNews http://www.apc.org/english/about/history/english.shtml?cmd[384]=i-575-17983

Intellectual property : copyright Roadmap points to IP priorities James Nurton, London - 20 March 2004 MIP Week (Legal Media Group) http://www.legalmediagroup.com/default.asp?Page=1&SID=13910&CH=5&CN=&CountryName=&Type=News

Cyberlaw : the law of the Internet in South Africa that the 1st edition is available, free, at http://www.cyberlawsa.co.za/1st_index.html.

Science must 'push copyright aside' - Richard Stallman – http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html

Copyright and distance education, Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 41-52 (Spring 1997) Janis H. Bruwelheide http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_uoikey=B6VCM-3SWV5RC-6&_origin=EMFR&_version=1&md5=e5fff25724996f4392802cd1032bcd17

File sharing; File-sharing: piracy : IP : intellectual property ; copyright Cdn music industry loses Federal Court bid to thwart music file swapping http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/03/31/pf-403384.html

IP : intellectual property : patents : medicines : developing countries Patent threat to anti-HIV compounds is lifted http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1308&language=1

UK Commission on IPR Report - http://www.iprcommission.org/graphic/documents/final_report.htm)

The state of copyright activism by Siva Vaidhyanathan see: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/siva/

Open-access journals are impacting science community http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1332&language=1 Open-access journals are beginning to have an impact on the scientific community, according to Web of Science producer Thomson ISI.

Developing world slow to share biodiversity data http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1325&language=1 A new survey shows that botanical organisations in the developing world are more reluctant than their developed-world counterparts to share information on their collections.

IP : intellectual property : FTA : Australia/US Free Trade Agreement issues http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/usafta/transcripts/canberra4mayp.pdf

" The Inevitable and the Optimal" By Richard Poynder (scientific publishing) http://www.infotoday.com/it/apr04/poynder.shtml

Web links leave abstracts going nowhere http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/Dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v428/n6983/full/428592a_fs.html or Try the following site : http://www.scidev.net/Quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=1&itemid=1321&language=1&qguideid=4 – Research published on the Internet may 'get lost' when web addresses change. (Source: Nature)

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33303.html Canadian Ruling on Song Swapping Sends Aftershocks http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33853.html Kazaa Wins Procedural Victory in Aussie Court

Accra Declaration on GATS and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa http://www.aau.org/wto-gats/declaration.htm

Canadian Library Association's update on the GATS negotiations and its implications for public sector libraries : http://www.cla.ca/issues/gats_update_gould.pdf

"For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to Free the Refereed Research Literature Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#Picture By Stevan Harnad, Intelligence/Agents/Multimedia Group Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK

IP : intellectual property : open access : open publishing : pre-prints : Elsevier further liberalizes copyright for authors http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00145

WIPO : Broadcasting Treaty : Webcasting Treaty : copyright : IP : intellectual property Campaigners for public access to broadcast material have condemned the draft, saying the treaty is being pushed through against protests from developing countries such as Brazil, China, Egypt and India http://news.bostonherald.com/search/?searchSite=recent&keyword=India

IBM faces copyright infringement suit http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-5229785.html

Old Wine new bottles (you can now sign a contract online) http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1540735,00.html

Rooibos battle rages on (copyright matter) http://www.finance24.co.za/Finance/Companies/0,,1518-24_1540007,00.html

Piracy : IP : intellectual property : copyright : pirates Pirate DVD mastermind nabbed http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1540021,00.html

" The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights conflict and Access to Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities" by George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman http://www.daisy.org/publications/docs/soundproof/sound_proof_book.html

Article in journal "Information Outlook", V.8, no. 6, June 2004 (Page 40) entitled "Table of Contents Service : Fair Use" by Laura Gasaway. If your institution/library subscribes to the online version, it can be found at www.sla.org/informationoutlook.

Scientific output: the real 'knowledge divide' http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=122&language=1 A new international study of scientific publications shows that the gap in scientific output between developed and developing countries is even greater than the gap in inputs (i.e. research spending).

China, Brazil and India lead southern science output http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1498&language=1

Parliamentarians call for greater access to information : http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Templates/System/LatestNews.asp?NodeID=38537 (Commonwealth News and Information (CNIS) Service Issue 192, 14.7.2004)

Open access : open publishing :research British MPs back free access to research results (Richard Wray in New York, Tuesday July 20, 2004 The Guardian) http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,1264929,00.html

Open access : open publishing : research : Call for shake-up in way scientific journals provided (By Clive Cookson, Science Editor Financial Times; Jul 20, 2004) http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=040720000937&query=Call+for+shake&vsc_appId=totalSearch&state=Form

DRM : Technological protection measures : copyright : IP : intellectual property : US Copyright law : Digital rights management : Digital Millennium Copyright Act 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).

DRM : Technological protection measures : copyright : IP : intellectual property : US Copyright law : Digital rights management : Digital Millennium Copyright Act 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

DRM : Technological protection measures : copyright : IP : intellectual property : US Copyright law : Digital rights management : Digital Millennium Copyright Act Technological Protection Measures Issues Paper http://www.eff.org/IP/FTAA/tpm_issues_eng.pdf

Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation

Research : IP : Intellectual Property : Developing countries Scientific output: the real 'knowledge divide' http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=122&language=1 A new international study of scientific publications shows that the gap in scientific output between developed and developing countries is even greater than the gap in inputs (i.e. research spending). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html

China, Brazil and India lead southern science output http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1498&language=1

Electronic publishing : Journals : The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library

Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats"

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub127/pub127.pdf

The primacy of authors in achieving Open Access http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/24.html

Copyright : piracy : IP : intellectual property : pirates Music industry takes hit in court http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040701/INTERNET01/TPNationa

Patents : Medicines : Australia/US Free Trade Agreement : FTA : AU/US FTA : IP : intellectual property "Australia's low-cost drugs threatened by US trade deal" http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0816/p07s01-woap.html

IP : intellectual property : copyright Ex-employee’s idea is owned by Alcatel (US case) http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=exemployees1029240823&area=news

In-House Advice from The New York Times Editorials : http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/opinion/17tue3.html?ex=1093730379&ei=1&en=d462299b0e844316

IP : intellectual property : digital copyright Copyright Issues in Digital Media (US Congressional Budget Office) http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5738&sequence=0&from=0#anchor

Copyright : IP : Intellectual Property Rights in South Africa : An economic review of policy and impact (Teljeur E, 2002)(The Edge Institute) http://www.the-edge.org.za/pdf/Intellectual%20property%20Rights.pdf

FTA : AU/US FTA : Free Trade Agreement : copyright : IP : intellectual property Free trade agreement may cost Australian information users $88 million a year (by C. Ormonde) http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/incite/2004/09/fta.html

IP : intellectual property : Great interview with Jessica Litman - the author of the eminently sensible book, Digital Copyright. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=04/02/25/0344203&mode=flat

Disney fights back in SA Copyright Case http://mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=121006

Papers delivered at the session on "Balance of copyright and licensing: access to information for print handicapped people" at the IFLA Conference in Buenos Aires (August 2004):-

Copyright exceptions for the visually impaired - international perspective (Geidy Lung, WIPO) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/177e-Lung.pdf

Copyright protection as access barrier for people who read differently: the case for an international approach (Dr. Johan Roos, Director,SA Library for the Blind) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/147e-Roos.pdf

Copyright: how can barriers to access be removed? An action plan for the removal of some copyright barriers that prevent equitable access to information by people with print disabilities (S. King and D. Mann) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/173e-King_Mann.pdf

Copyright : IP : intellectual property : open access Towards the ideal: steps to improve access (V. Owen) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/121e-Owen.pdf

IP : intellectual property ; copyright Intellectual honesty in the Electronic age http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/~jiliff/iliff_xiao.htm

Digitization : Digitisation : Preservation : Conservation : Libraries : Library projects

Microfilming for digitisation and optical character recognition (Supplement to Guidelines)  (IFLA) - http://www.ifla.org/VII/s39/broch/microfilming.htm 

(you will be able to click onto the initial Guidelines as well)

RLG Guidelines for microfilming to support digitization (Research Libraries Group, USA) - www.rlg.org/preserv/microsuppl.pdf

Useful copyright websites :

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/copyright Charles Oppenheim takes a look at some websites and bulletin boards that contain information on copyright issues

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/other The JISC/TLTP Copyright Guidelines - an invaluable reference work for HE projects and researchers

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa JISC/PA (UK) guidelines on electrocopying

www.tasi.ac.uk Information on various aspects of copyright (print and electronic)

1. Five Publishers File Copyright Suit Against Coursepack Producers http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd030303.shtml

2. WTO Patent rules 'should be scrapped' http://www.scidev.net/frame3.asp?id=260220031632011&t=N&authors=Natasha%20McDowell&posted=26%20Feb%2

Digital Rights Management - DRM

3. European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations' (EBLIDA)position on Digital Rights Management Systems www.eblida.org/topics/drms/drms_position1.pdf

1." The Significance of WTO Agreements for the Library and Information World" (Ruth Rikowski)

2. "Latest developments in Copyright licences" by P. Shepherd, CE of the CLA, UK

You can check their website at www.managinginformation.com www.vraweb.org/copyright.html Visual Resources Association (USA)

WIPO General Assembly : Sept. 27-Oct 5, 2004 - Proposal by Argentina and Brazil for the establishment of a Development Agenda for WIPO. http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/document/govbody/wo_gb_ga/pdf/wo_ga_31_11.pdf

IP : intellectual property World first as copyright laws protect perfume perfumehttp://www.star.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=2171955A

Public Domain

Article by K. Crews on identifying the public domain in the States. http://dml.indiana.edu/pdf/dml-copyright-duration-report.pdf

"Lawrence Lessig Sees Public Domain Sinking in a Sea of Overregulation" http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=10831

Resources helping to explain copyright

• Copyright&Commons http://lucychili.net/sfd/alpha.shtml A card game, licensed as per GPL, this means you can use, and modify the game. If you distribute it please do so with the same freedoms which you have enjoyed.
• Beth Kanter on not for profits and creative commons. http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/penguinday2007

Library workhop

Copyright on WikiEducator

Workshop on library

• http://www.wikieducator.org/Copyright_on_WikiEducator