Intellectual Property:

WIPO: Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain (Séverine Dusollier)

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/mdocs/en/cdip_7/cdip_7_inf_2.pdf

ISPs to stop you from pirating?

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/45892-isps-to-stop-you-from-pirating.html

Intellectual Property:

Long-Awaited Ruling in Copyright Case Mostly Favors Georgia State U.

http://chronicle.com/article/Long-Awaited-Ruling-in/131859/

Why We Should Stop Calling it DRM and Maybe Abandon it Altogether

Intellectual Property:

Copyright Review Commission concludes its work and hands over report to Minister Davies (South Africa)

http://www.info.gov.za/speech/DynamicAction?pageid=461&sid=27029&tid=66286

German Ministry Advises Developing Countries Not to Sign ACTA

http://bit.ly/JqucwM 

Intellectual Property:

USTR Releases 2012 Special 301 Report

http://infojustice.org/archives/18830

USTR's 2012 Special 301 Report, focuses on largest developing country markets, and Canada

http://keionline.org/node/1403

More notes on the USTR 2012 Special 301 List

http://keionline.org/node/1404

Copyright in the Age of YouTube

Intellectual Property:

IP Watch List 2012 (CI)

http://bit.ly/Ipdhf7  

Entrenched Anti-Consumer Bias Found in Copyright Laws: Creators Launch Petition for Better Contracts

http://bit.ly/KJzRj0

Consumers’ Rights Still Not on Equal Footing with Copyright Owners  Study Finds

Intellectual Property

Publishers Sue as Boundless Nabs $8M For An Open Alternative To Textbooks

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/05/publishers-sue-as-boundless-nabs-8m/

Protection of State Information Bill (South Africa)

Various articles in Mail & Guardian

http://mg.co.za/tag/protection-of-information-bill

Intellectual Property:

Opening Pandora’s Box: Secret Treaty Threatens Human Rights

Protection of State Information Bill (South Africa)

Varsities ‘no’ to Info Bill

http://bit.ly/HetTUK

Intellectual Property

UK Publishers Association Outraged It Wasn't Consulted Ahead Of The Public Over Open Access To Publicly-Funded Research

http://bit.ly/Hz313Y

Intellectual Property:

eIFL-IP Resources
http://www.eifl.net/eifl-ip-resources

Momentum

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/03/10/momentum/

Pinterest Copyright Issues Could Spur Changes To Terms Of Use And ‘Pin Etiquette’

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Authors Rights (K. Crews) (video)

http://dsu.libguides.com/content.php?pid=274041&sid=2576440

The Next Step in Open Access Publishing

http://culturedigitally.org/2012/03/the-next-step-in-open-access-publishing/ 

Of Google and Scholarly Search