Open Education Week: March 11-15
Open Education Week is taking place from 11-15 March 2013 online and in locally hosted events around the world. The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement...
View ArticleSecond Annual Open Education Week Highlights Educational Opportunities...
OCW Consortium Press Release Contact: Mary Lou Forward +1 802 347.1373 mlforward@ocwconsortium.org Newton, MA (March 4, 2013) – The second annual Open Education week will take place March 11-15, 2013....
View ArticleCalifornia Unveils Bill to Provide Openly Licensed, Online College Courses...
[Cable Green, CC-BY, Creative Commons] Today California (CA) Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (author of the CA open textbook legislation) announced that SB 520 will be amended to provide...
View ArticleThe Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook
[Updated on April 3, 2013, to include Liberia.] More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world’s population have fair use or fair dealing provisions in their copyright laws. These countries...
View ArticleNational Human Rights Body Recommends Abolishing Three-Strike-Out Rule
[Reposted from http://hurips.blogspot.kr] Today the National Human Rights Commissionof S. Korea published a special report on information human rights. It is the first report comprehensively...
View ArticleTrade Negotiator Probir Mehta Discusses “Binding Commitments” on Copyright...
Yesterday the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) held a panel on “21st Century Issues” in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations, which featured speakers on...
View ArticleHow Flexibility Supports the Goals of Copyright Law: Fair use and the U.S....
[Excerpt from a white paper prepared by Elizabeth Hadzima, Alexandra Wood, Lila Bailey, and Jennifer Urban] This briefing paper describes how the flexibility of the fair use doctrine in United States...
View ArticleOpen Education Around the World – A 2013 Open Education Week Summary
[Blog post by Creative Commons, (CC-BY)] Creative Commons congratulates all those who participated in the second annual Open Education Week March 11-15, 2013. It’s impressive to see how global open...
View ArticleConvocatoria a Charlas (Cumbre Mundial de Creative Commons)
[Creative Commons Colombia (Link) (CC-BY)]La Cumbre Mundial de Creative Commons, que se realizará este año en Buenos Aires – Argentina, lanzó oficialmente la Convocatoria a Sesiones y Charlas, que...
View ArticleA la demande générale, nous avons traduit en français le manuel sur l’usage...
[By popular demand, we have created a French version of the Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook] Plus de 40 pays, qui comptent plus du tiers de la population mondiale, ont inscrit des dispositions d’usage...
View ArticleOp-ed on Publisher Lawsuit Against Delhi University: Why Students Need the...
[Shamnad Basheer] Late last year, leading publishing houses including Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press brought a copyright action against Delhi University and a tiny photocopy...
View ArticleThe Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the...
[Posted to michaelgeist.ca (CC-BY)(Link)] Copyright cases typically only reach the Supreme Court of Canada once every few years, ensuring that each case is carefully parsed and analyzed. As readers of...
View ArticleObama Administration Releases Historic Open Data Rules to Enhance Government...
[White House press release, May 9, 2013] The Obama Administration today took groundbreaking new steps to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible to...
View ArticleChanges in U.S. Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Proposal Needed to...
As the Trans Pacific Partnership creeps toward an end game (which appears far off) it may be worth spending more time discussing positive proposals for amending the proposal in various ways. I have...
View ArticleTestimony Prepared for the USTR Hearing on the Transatlantic Trade and...
This submission is made in my personal capacity. The central point of this submission is that the TTIP negotiation should exclude intellectual property issues. It should exclude IP issues because the...
View ArticlePIJIP and the AU Center for Social Media Release Set of Principles in Fair...
[Reposted from pijip-impact.org] This document is a statement of principles to help journalists in the United States interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. It is intended for anyone who engages...
View ArticleCongressional Letter Challenging Indian IP Policy Falsely Condemns...
On June 18, 2013, 170 Members of Congress wrote to President Obama complaining about Indian trade policy and more particularly India’s intellectual property “climate.” Under the umbrella of claiming...
View ArticleItems of Interest from the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement...
Here are a few items of interest in the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator’s Joint Strategic Plan issued yesterday. Reference to Fair Use — p. 18 Effective enforcement is critical to...
View ArticleDigital rights and access to knowledge hang in the balance at the UN next month
In the digital rights and access to knowledge movements, we spend a lot of our time fighting against bad proposals, that limit the public domain, restrict user rights such as fair use or fair dealing,...
View ArticleWIPO Treaty for the Blind Shows that Transparency Can Work (and is Necessary)
Yesterday it was announced that negotiators had reached “miracle” conclusion for a new international treaty for the visually impaired. This agreement was reached under conditions of unprecedented...
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