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Blind Students Get Free Access to Cambridge U. Press Books
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| Texts for visually impaired college students
| are hard to come by. But a new agreement
| between Cambridge University Press and
| Bookshare, a nonprofit organization that
| converts books and journals into formats that
| blind people can read, may enlarge this
| library.
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http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Blind-Students-Get-Free-Access/24722/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Highly Misleading Press Release by Oxford University Press Journals
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| Oxford University Press Journals has issued a
| highly misleading press release -- "Open
| Access Uptake: Five Years On," not making it
| clear that it is not Open Access (OA) uptake
| that is declining, but merely the uptake of
| OUP's pricey "Oxford Open (OO)" paid hybrid-
| Gold OA option.
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http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/741-Highly-Misleading-Press-Release-by-Oxford-University-Press-Journals.html
ACTA: The Fact Controller speaks ...
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| On Saturday the online Official Journal of the
| European Union carried the Opinion of the
| European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on
| the current negotiations by the European Union
| of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA), which you can read in full here. The
| EDPS isn't interested in intellectual
| property, counterfeiting or any of the other
| things that concern the IP community -- but he
| is highly concerned about anything to do with
| information. Issues such as transparency and
| the extent to which personal data can be
| stored, shared and used are very much on his
| mind.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/06/acta-fact-controller-speaks.html
Recent:
India Comes Out Swinging Against ACTA at WTO
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| The Government of India came out forcefully
| against ACTA this week in an intervention
| at the World Trade Organization. The India
| position, which may well reflect the views
| of other ACTA-excluded countries,
| demonstrates that ACTA is emerging as a
| contentious political issue that extends
| well beyond civil society and business
| groups concerned with the agreement.
| Countries excluded from the ACTA process
| have to come to recognize the serious
| threat it represents both substantively as
| well as for the future of multilateral
| organizations.
|
| This growing concern from countries such as
| India represents a major new pressure point
| on the ACTA discussions. The notion that
| ACTA countries could negotiate an agreement
| that would ultimately be used to pressure
| non-ACTA countries to conform without
| attracting opposition from those very
| countries was always unrealistic. If the
| April ACTA round of talks was marked by the
| mounting pressure for greater transparency,
| the late June ACTA round of talks will
| undoubtedly have developing country
| opposition as its core concern.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5106/125/
ACTA and the Specter of Graduated Response
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| This short paper, prepared for a workshop
| on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA) and the Public Interest at American
| Universityâs Washington College of Law,
| considers the draft Internet provisions of
| ACTA in the context of concerns raised in
| the media that the treaty will require
| signatories to mandate graduated response
| regimes (Ã la Franceâs controversial HADOPI
| system) for online copyright enforcement.
| Although the Consolidated Text of ACTA,
| released in late April, confirms that
| mandatory graduated response is off the
| table for the treatyâs negotiators, the
| treaty in its current form both
| accommodates and promotes the adoption of
| graduated response. Moreover, opponents of
| graduated response should be wary of the
| fact that public law mechanisms â be they
| domestic or international â are not the
| only means by which graduated response can
| effectively become the law for Internet
| users. The United States and Ireland
| provide examples of the trend toward
| private ordering in the project of online
| copyright enforcement.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1619006
ACTA may hamper fight against climate change
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| The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA) may hamper the fight against
| climate change by inhibiting the diffusion
| of green technology, according to the
| Foundation for a Free Information
| Infrastructure (FFII).
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| Behind closed doors, the European Union,
| United States, Japan and other trade
| partners are negotiating an Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will
| contain new international norms for the
| enforcement of copyrights, trade mark
| rights, patents and other exclusive
| rights.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/ACTA%20may%20hamper%20fight%20against%20climate%20change
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