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Regards Denise From: Denise Nicholson Sent: 01 April 2009 12:27 PM To: 'copyrightanda2ki...@lists.wits.ac.za' Subject: Copyright & A2K Issues - 1 April 2009 FYI, Regards Denise (For information about this Service, to access the Archive, or to subscribe/unsubscribe, please see: http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo <http://lists.wits.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/copyrightanda2kinfo> ) Issues affecting persons with sensory-disabilities:- Authors have lost the Plot in Kindle battle http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/31/cory-doctorow-kindle Adobe in Wonderland http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,22914,00.html Intellectual Property and Legal Issues:- The Global Debate on Enforcement of Intellectual Property in Developing Countries http://ictsd.net/i/publications/42762/ Should universities break copyright law? http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/03/should-universi ties-break-copyright-law.html Universities as copyright warriors http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/03/universities-as -copyright-warriors.html Obama trade officials promise through review of transparency policies http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/03/20/ustr2review-transparency/ Copyright treaty is classified for 'national security' http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10195547-38.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlin esArea.0 US Trade Team Responds To Protectionist Pressure In Reports On Trading Partners http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/03/31/us-trade-team-responds-to-prot ectionist-pressure-in-reports-on-trading-partners/ Postmortem for the Geneva Mini-Ministerial: Where does TRIPS go from here http://ictsd.net/downloads/2009/02/abbot_final2.pdf International Comparative Legal Guide to Telecommunications Law and Regulations 2009 (2nd edition). http://www.iclg.co.uk/khadmin/Publications/pdf/2297.pdf Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication:- German petition against Google Books and OA http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/german-petition-against-googl e-books.html Publishers denounce JISC open access report http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2238083/publishers-de nounce-jisc-open UK Government backs Open Source http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm Internet access to double in next five years http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/the_future/internet_access_to_double_in_next _five_years.html Text is forever. Paper books are not. <http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/31/text-is-forever-paper-books-are-not/ > http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/31/text-is-forever-paper-books-are-not/ "On the Record" - A Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of News <http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinOnTheRecord.asp?issID=47> http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinOnTheRecord.asp?issID=47 World Newspaper Archives Update http://www.crl.edu/focus/0809WinWNAUpdate.asp?issID=47 Government of Canada Provides Open Access to UFO X-Files http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/03/prweb2264574.htm The Open Knowledge Definition http://opendefinition.org/ Open Shakespeare http://www.openshakespeare.org/ Public Domain Calculators http://www.publicdomainworks.net/ Conference alerts:- United Nations World Conference 2009 World Partnership Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. "Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade" 15-21 April, 2009, London, UK. Contact email: conference2...@un.org Online EDUCA Berlin 2009 Global E-Learning Conference for the Corporate, Education and Public Service Sectors 2-4 December 2009, Berlin, Germany www.online-educa.com Denise Rosemary Nicholson (Mrs.) Copyright Services Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The Library, Private Bag X1, WITS, 2050, South Africa Tel. No. + 27 11 717-1929 Fax No. + 27 11 717-1946 http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/Services/COPYRIGHT.htm http://web.wits.ac.za/Library/ResearchResources/SubjectPortals/Copyright +and+Related+Issues.htm http://kim.wits.ac.za <http://kim.wits.ac.za/> <html><p><font face = "verdana" size = "0.8" color = "navy">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. 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