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EIFL starts an OA project in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

[Posting in the Electronic Information for Libraries Newsletter] “Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda” is a new EIFL regional project funded by Spider, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions DSV, Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University. The aim of the project is to raise visbility and […]

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Presenting ‘Copy Culture in the US and Germany’

Copy Culture in the US and Germany is a comparative study of digital culture, focusing on media consumption, media acquisition, and attitudes toward copyright enforcement. The study is based on a large-scale phone survey of Americans and Germans in late 2011. Author Joe Karaganis

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A Look at Industry Comments Regarding the Inclusion (or Not) of IPRs in Soon-to-Be-Proposed U.S.-EU Free Trade Agreement

Europolitics.org reports that the U.S.-EU High Level Working Group (HLWG) on Jobs and Growth, co-chaired by Europe’s Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk , will likely release a report proposing the negotiation of a “comprehensive and ambitious free trade agreement (FTA)” by the end of the month. The draft report […]

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Compulsory License for Anti-Cancer Drugs – Update from Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab

Press Release by the Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab CONTACT: Kalyani Menon-Sen: +91 9910306382, kmenonsen[at] gmail.com Leena Menghaney: +91 9811365412, leenamenghaney [at] gmail.com The Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab welcomes the news that the Government of India has started the process of issuing compulsory licences for the manufacture of biosimilars of three cancer drugs – Trastuzumab, Dasatinib and […]

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CC licensing underpins Queensland’s Open Data Revolution

[Posted by Cheryl Foong on the Creative Commons Australia site, CC-BY] The Queensland Government has implemented its ’open data revolution’ by launching the Queensland Government Data website – data.qld.gov.au. The initiative was first announced by Premier Campbell Newman in a press release ‘Queensland Government’s ‘open data’ revolution begins‘ in October 2012. The Premier’s press release ‘New […]

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Research Finds Censoring Pirate Sites Doesn’t Work

[Originally posted by Ernesto on TorrentFreak, CC-BY-NC] A new study released by researchers from Boston’s Northeastern University shows that censoring “pirate” sites by blocking or seizing their domains is ineffective. The researchers looked at the availability of various pirated media on file-hosting sites and found that uploaders post more new content than copyright holders can […]

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