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Intellectual Property
- Joint Academic Opinion on South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill (B-13B of 2017)
- Royalties For Artists | Artists struggling to survive (South Africa) (YouTube)
- Reforming the Right to Remuneration in the South African Copyright Amendment Bill
- Copyright Resources and Fair Use Best Practices for Various Stakeholders
- Ensuring Text and Data Mining: Remaining Issues with the EU Copyright Exceptions and Possible Ways Out
- Reversion of Copyright in Europe
- DSM Directive implementation update: With one month to go it is clear that the Commission has failed to deliver
- MSF Responds to revised proposal for TRIPS Waiver submitted to WTO by sponsoring governments
- The TRIPS Intellectual Property Waiver Proposal: Creating the Right Incentives in Patent Law and Politics to End the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Letter from 141 Scholars to USTR Re: United States Facilitation of the TRIPS Waiver
- Think Regulating User Generated Content in Bill C-10 Is Just an Inadvertent Mistake? Think Again
- Instagram Embed Feature Sparks Copyright Suit from Users
- YouTube Adds New Tools to Detect Copyright Violations and Block Them Within the Upload Process
- Twenty Recommendations For Raising CMO Standards
Open Access, Scholarly Communication & Predatory Publishing
- Resources on Citation Manipulation/Misconduct
- Honest signalling in academic publishing
- How is open access accused of being predatory? The impact of Beall’s lists of predatory journals on academic publishing
- Uncovering the reasons and ethical concerns behind publishing in a predatory journal
- Authors beware! Predatory publishing is worthless
- Content at Scale – The Third Wave
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Resources on Open Science
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