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Intellectual Property
- 19 Vaccines as Global Public Goods: Between Life And Profit
- Affordable Covid drugs kept out of reach by sluggish WTO
- Education and Copyright: obstacles to teaching in the digital age
- Enabling the future of youth research through copyright
- IFLA Statement on Broadcast Rights – 10 May 2022
- Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright
- WIPO – Proposal by the African Group for a Draft Work Program on Exceptions and Limitations
- WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights – Forty-Second Session (May 2022)
- The EU’s Copyright Directive Is Still About Filters, But EU’s Top Court Limits Its Use
People with Disabilities and Copyright
- D-Day in ConCourt bid to have Copyright Act declared unconstitutional
- Showdown over copyright laws in South Africa
- Sanya Samtani: BlindSA seeks redress from Constitutional Court on copyright discrimination
- Court Reserves Judgment in Blind SA Copyright Case
Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication
- Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?
- Thomson Reuters to Review Human Rights Impact of its Data Collection for ICE
Conferences
- ICOSRP 2022: 16. International Conference on Open Science Research Philosophy – July 19-20, 2022 in Helsinki, Finland
- ICOASPI 2022: 16. International Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing and Indexing – October 06-07, 2022 in Dubrovnik, Croatia
- SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022 – 25-29 September 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa
- The empty library: The urgency of solutions to unsustainable eBook markets (KR21)
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