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Intellectual Property:
Top EU Court to Examine Anti-Piracy Pact
ACTA is part of a Multi-Decade Worldwide Copyright Campaign
Statement by Commissioner Karel De Gucht on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=778
Alternative Copyright Reform Bill Introduced in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
http://infojustice.org/archives/8275
Netherlands plans to make 'copyrighted material easier to use'
Authors, Publishers and Librarians - Perspectives on Copyright Laws
Traditional Knowledge:
Indigenous Peoples Walk Out Of WIPO Committee On Genetic Resources
WIPO Achieves Single Legal Text On Genetic Resources; Indigenous Peoples Back
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
Open Access Policy Template for Scholarly Authors
Australia to make health research open access
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/21/nhmrc_going_open_access/
University of Melbourne’s Treasures Revealed
http://apps.toura.com/university-of-melbourne-library/treasures-revealed
Prime Time for Open Access
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/prime-time-for-public-access.shtml
Article Argues that Academic Libraries Should Give Up Book-By-Book-Collecting
Regards
Denise
Denise 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
Email Fax: 0865533134 - http://www.wits.ac.za/library
My LibGuides:
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Wits_Copyright_Guidelines
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Scholarly_Research_Resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/plagiarism_citation_and_referencing
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Resources_for_Blind_and_Visually-Impaired
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/deaf_and_hardofhearing
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitisation_preservation_and_digitalcuration
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/journalism_and_media-studies
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Open_Educational_Resources
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/ClimateChange
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/WIREDSPACE
http://libguides.wits.ac.za/Mobile_Technologies
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