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UNISA Chancellor’s Calabash Awards 2021
- CEO of Scholarly Horizons wins a second prestigious award in 2021
- CEO’ brief acceptance speech (26 November 2021)
Intellectual Property
- A Review of the Empirical Evidence On Copyright Exceptions
- Aflia Webinar: Copyright Basics and why it is important to libraries and information institutions
- Aflia Webinar: Library rights – Limitations and Exceptions (LAMs, education & research) and licensing
- After COVID boom, ebook aggregators face licensing questions from Congress
- Are copyright-permitted uses “exceptions”, “limitations” or “user rights”? The special case of Article 17 CDSM Directive
- Biden calls for intellectual property waivers on COVID vaccines
- Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They’ll Have to Do It Again
- Changes to The Singapore Copyright Act Come Into Force
- Copyright in the Time of Covid-19: An Australian Perspective
- EIFL Comments on Namibian Copyright Bill
- Google reaches content deals with German publishers
- Hong Kong to revive bill bolstering copyright law as minister warns satire, parodies must toe national security line
- Adopting TRIPS Waiver for unhindered access to COVID-19 medical tools more urgent
- IP in the Light of the Information Society – Intellectual Property Law Public Lecture (Prof T. Hoeren) 2021
- Is Protecting Copyright More Important Than Saving Lives During The COVID-19 Pandemic?
- Kluwer Copyright Blog: Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law
- New copyright law in Ireland may see Big Tech pay for news content
- ‘Out of step with other nations’: Canada’s Crown copyright laws in need of an overhaul, say library associations
- Protecting media copyright online
- Signing of EU copyright directive into Irish law strengthens rights of content creators
- Singapore’s Copyright Act 2021: New Exception For Computational Uses And Updates To Fair Use And Educational Exceptions
- Six Steps for Value Creation in Heritage Brands
- Spain adopts EU copyright law, paving way for Google News to return
- Spanish Implementation of Copyright Directive is here: Legislative Update
- The Complexity Dialectic: A 2021 Update
- The Real-Life Consequences of Copyright Termination
- The UK Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, Etc.) Bill
- UK government consultation on AI & copyright: Text and Data mining
- US Copyright Office Expands Rights to Repair Software-Enabled Devices
- US Copyright Office says you can fix a game console (but only the optical drive)
- Vaccine Knowledge Needs to be a Global Public Good
Open Access, Scholarly Communication & A2K
- A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review
- cOAlition S statement on Open Access for academic books
- Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 3
- Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 2
- Dead on Archival (Newspapers)
- Does the World Need an Academic Integrity Awareness Index? An Interview with Helen Zhang
- Essential facts about Covid 19 – The disease, the responses, and an uncertain future
- Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online
- Guest Post — Five Things You Need to Know about UKRI’s New Open Access Policy
- Guest Post — Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on how COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
- Guest Post — Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on how COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
- Guest Post — Seeking Feedback on a Model Digital Preservation Policy, a Project of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee
- Guest Post — Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
- Interpretation of the ASSAf Code of Best Practice – Prof Elizabeth Henning
Aflia Copyright Webinars in 2022
- WEBINAR 4: Copyright and Public Lending Right at WIPO – Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 – 10.30 (GMT)
- WEBINAR 5: AfCFTA and access to knowledge in African libraries – Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 – 10.30 (GMT)
- WEBINAR 6: Copyright, Libraries and Collective Management in Africa (includes photocopying and licensing) – Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 – 10.30 (GMT)
- Register for above webinars at: https://web.aflia.net/webinar-series-copyright-issues-and-african-libraries/
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