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Intellectual Property
- Academics want to preserve video games. Copyright laws make it complicated.
- Australian Government Buys Copyright to Indigenous Flag
- Copyright Directive: Italy’s Transposition Is Not so Creative and Original
- Copyright directive series: progress in the directive transposition
- Copyright in educational material: Lessons from COVID-19
- Copyright Shouldn’t Stand in the Way of Your Right to Repair
- Decolonising Copyright: Reconsidering Copyright Exclusivity and the Role of the Public Interest in International Intellectual Property Frameworks
- EU Copyright 20 Years After the InfoSoc Directive – Flexibility Needed More Than Ever
- European Copyright Society Comment on Copyright and the Digital Services Act Proposal
- How University Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom
- Opening the Book (video)
- Protection of Copyright and Accessing Education Materials at Low Prices: Finding a Sustainable Solution for Bangladesh
- Removing intellectual-property barriers from COVID-19 vaccines and treatments for people in South Africa
- Right to repair move gets backing from President Biden
- The AI-Copyright Challenge: Tech-Neutrality, Authorship, and the Public Interest
Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication
- ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning
- Guest Post — Does Open Access Cannibalize Print Sales for Monographs?
- Guest Post – Perspectives on a “Unified Approach” to the Future of Open Access
- IFLA Trend Report 2021 Update released
- Libraries, Publishers Battle Over Terms for E-Books’ Use
- Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
- OpenAlex
- Revisiting: The Multifarious Book
- Surveillance Publishing
- The Other Diversity in Scholarly Publishing
- The West already monopolized scientific publishing. Covid made it worse.
- Vatican Library opens to public with old-new art space
- Why Your Library Should Be All-In with Controlled Digital Lending
Conference Alerts – Call For Papers
University of Johannesburg, together with Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), will be hosting an International Conference – 17 and 18 May 2022 f
- Theme: RECONNECT: Embracing the changing shape of the world and how we work together.
- Final Due Date to Submit Abstract: 31 March 2022
- For information and submission of abstracts – Email: renekap@uj.ac.za
- SAOUG and OSALL CONFERENCE (Hybrid): 9 – 10 June 2022, CSIR ICC, Pretoria
- Theme: Robots, Drones & Zombies
- Deadline for abstracts – 28 February 2022 –
- For information and submission – Email: saoug.chair@gmail.com
Webinar
- The Impact of a TRIPS COVID Waiver on Trade and Investment Agreements
- February 4, 2022 | 10am EST | 3pm GMT
- Co-Sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association and the South Centre
- To register go to: http://infojustice.org/archives/43864
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