Copyright and copyleft/Archives - 2005

Copyright - Archives - 2005

Electronic re-publication of book on Africa

One of the main titles concerned with information and libraries in Africa 'The Quiet Struggle' by Paul Sturges and Richard Neill has been out of print for some years now and never achieved full distribution in Africa because of the high price charged by the publishers. A full text of the Second (1998) edition available electronically. To find it, go to Paul Sturges' webpage at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/psturges.html

The Canadian Library Association website http://www.cla.ca/copyright/

Software Should Not Be Copyrighted -- Lawsuit By Andy Sullivan (Dec 2004) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7083753&pageNumber=1

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

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

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

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

EDRI-gram Report on WIPO general assemblies (Oct 2005) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number3.20/WIPO

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

"Fair dealing" in a number of 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

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

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

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

Are patent rules compatible with access to essential medicines in developing countries? http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_medicines.html Bioprospecting: legitimate research or 'biopiracy'? http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/ip/ippolicy_gd_bioprospecting.html

Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS Plus : implications for developing countries in Africa (Denise Nicholson's WLIC/IFLA paper in Oslo, August 2005) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/195e-Nicholson.pdf

WorldCat - http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/default.htm

How Australian educational institutions deal with TV and copyright: "EnhanceTV is a free website and email service which gives educators access to information on more than 20,000 film, TV and radio titles. In addition, teachers can download hundreds of free articles, study guides and other resources." http://www.enhancetv.com.au/

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

Response to article on "Madiba marks his brand" (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

Useful cyberlaw resources :- http://www.buys.co.za/newsroom_detail_cyberlaw_resources.asp

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

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

Guide to librarians on TRIPS by IFLA http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/p1/tt-e.htm

Open Access Online Library with copyright information : http://www.bambooweb.com/

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

Useful cyberlaw resources :- http://www.buys.co.za/newsroom_detail_cyberlaw_resources.asp

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

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

South African Copyright Act on the web - http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/file_download.php/47f393caa633c1d051c87045ba9a2d26Copyright_Act_1978.pdf Unfortunately the Regulations are not available here.

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

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

Open Access Online Library with copyright information : http://www.bambooweb.com/ Legal Database (US laws) - http://www.legal-database.com/intellectualproperty.htm

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

Creatie Commons (Canada) http://www.faircopyright.ca/

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

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.

Open Access Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.net/

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

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

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

Free Culture: http://www.free-culture.org/ Lessig's great book for explaining the free culture movement and creative commons

Creative Commons South Africa - http://za.creativecommons.org -

Creative Commons-licensed content: http://creativecommons.org/getcontent/ and http://archive.org

Universities:

-Rice University, USA http://cnx.rice.edu; http://ocw.mit.org

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

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

Does the Patent System Need an Overhaul? Sept. 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/27/technology/27patent.html?th

Saving the Artistic Orphans (K. Dean) Sept.2004 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64494,00.html

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

Scientific publishing is having to change rapidly to respond to growing pressure for free access to published research - See: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3061258

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

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

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

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

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).

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)

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

The U.K. Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee held the first oral hearings in its inquiry into scientific publishing. Article by Richard Poynder, " The Inevitable and the Optimal" http://www.infotoday.com/it/apr04/poynder.shtml

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

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

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

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

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. )

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

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

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

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

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

WIPO's 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 WCLIS/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 ifferently: 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 toinformation 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

Virtual resources of the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright, University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/

USA IP case - Universal City Studios v Corley 273 F.3d 429 http://digital-law-online.info/cases/60PQ2D1953.htm)

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

Some 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

On the EU Directive (T. Hackett) http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/record/r200104/article2.html

Collective Management of Copyright and neighbouring rights, as well as the contents of the SA Copyright Amendment Bill 2001 (sections 1 and 9 only): 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. Also on www.buys.co.za (under Downloads)

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

UK Copyright Tribunal Decision made in favour of the Higher Education Institutions. The decisionL: www.patent.gov.uk/copy/tribunal/tribnews4.htm.

Copyright Tribunal matter between the CLA and the Higher Education Institutions http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/copyright/index.html

Copyright in Higher Education Workgroup( CHEW) http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/copyright/ctref.html.

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.

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.

Useful copyright resource http://www.la-hq.org.uk/groups/laca/laca4.html

Copyright Resources on the Internet http://groton.k12ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm

Fair Use in Education http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html#Contents

List of other copyright sites http://www.nmjc.cc.nm.us/copyrightbay/ http://www.benedict.com/ http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/copyright/ http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/Copyright/ereserves.htm [for music educators]

10 Big Myths about Copyright http://www.templetons.com/brad//copymyths.html

Copyright Management Center-Indiana University-Purdue University - http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/home.html

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

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

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

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

Denise Nicholson's 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).