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Intellectual Property:
SA Copyright Amendment Bill goes back to Parliament
President Cyril Ramaphosa refers Copyright and Performers’ Protection Amendment Bills to Parliament
Blind SA Constitutional Challenge of the Copyright Amendment Bill
South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill Returned to Parliament for Further Consideration
http://infojustice.org/archives/42426
Long walk to copyright reform: South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/06/long-walk-to-copyright-reform-south.html
Copyright reforms likely unconstitutional says SA President in major decision
http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2020/06/copyright-reforms-likely.html
Comments by WIPO Copyright Director Undermines IIPA's South Africa Petition
http://infojustice.org/archives/42414
Copyright Exceptions across Borders: Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty
http://infojustice.org/archives/42403
Canada: Canadian Copyright Law Updates (June 2020)
https://www.mondaq.com/canada/copyright/951436/canadian-copyright-law-updates-june-2020
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
You can publish open access, but ‘big’ journals still act as gatekeepers to discoverability and impact
Publisher Open Access Policies: Introducing Sherpa Romeo v2
https://www.infodocket.com/2020/06/16/open-access-policies-introducing-sherpa-romeo-v2/
OpenStax textbook revisions, updates, and improvements - Why and how OpenStax revises textbooks
https://openstax.org/blog/openstax-textbook-revisions-updates-and-improvements
Springer Nature Transformative Open Access Agreement
Coronavirus resources (NIH)
https://www.nih.gov/coronavirus
Long read | Science needs to inform the public. That can’t be done solely in English …
German Public Broadcaster ZDF Releases Dozens of Videos under CC Licenses:
Landmark Transformative Agreement reached between Springer Nature and University of California
Jisc and Universities UK call for publishers to reduce their fees to maintain access to essential teaching and learning materials
COAR survey finds no large barriers for repository platforms in complying with Plan S
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/plan_s_reposurvey/
What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement?
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Sharing Openly Licensed Content on Social Media: A Conversation with GLAM:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/15/sharing-openly-licensed-content-on-social-media/
OER Repositories & Platforms List
https://oer-obp.pubpub.org/pub/wac0y6kx/release/9
Critical Questions for Open Educational Practices
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01587919.2020.1775341
The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes
https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-cost-of-open-access-books-a-publisher-writes/