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Intellectual Property:
- South Africa: Written Submissions to Parliament on Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) – July 2021
- South Africa: Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry – Public Hearings on CAB – 11 August 2021
- South Africa: Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry – Public Hearings on CAB – 12 August 2021
- Supreme Court (Canada) – Collective Copyright Licenses Are Not Mandatory
- India: Remix Music and its Interplay With Copyright Laws
- India: The Significance Of Copyright Law In Academics And Research
- Why Companies Keep Folding to Copyright Pressure, Even If They Shouldn’t
- Sen. Tillis, The Copyright Office, and Continued Library Advocacy
- Top EU Court Rules Online Platforms Are Not Liable For Copyright Infringements Of User Uploads, Unless They Actively Intervene
- Know your rights: the key to eBook access
- A Deeper Look into the EU Text and Data Mining Exceptions: Harmonisation, Data Ownership, and The Future of Technology
Scholarly Communication and Open Access:
- Guest Post — Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Peer Review in Africa
- We won’t get to a more equitable knowledge ecosystem if we don’t have more equitable ways to assess research and knowledge
- Revisiting — The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
- Guest Post — One Publisher to Rule Them All? Consolidation Trends in the Scholarly Communications and Research Sectors
- Hacking Heritage: Understanding the Limits of Online Access
- AAAS Plan S Compliance Policy: Staying Committed to Subscriptions
- Repairing Medical Equipment in Times of Pandemic
- EIFL Welcomes WTO Decision on TRIPS Waiver Request
- Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions
Predatory Publishing Practices
- Fidelior™ – new research tool for checking your citations and references
- Resources on Predatory Publishing Practices and Citation Pollution
TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19:
- Extension of the Transition Period Under Article 66.1 For Least Developed Country Members
- The WTO TRIPS WAIVER Should Help Build Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity in Africa
- EU Proposals regarding Article 31bis of the TRIPS Agreement in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- The TRIPS COVID-19 Waiver, Challenges for Africa and Decolonizing Intellectual Property
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