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Argentina Copyleft! Neue Spielregeln für das digitale Zeitalter? Ein Blick nach Argentinien

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2010), 104 pp.

"Argentinien nimmt in der Rangfolge der Länder, die einen restriktiven Umgang mit Urheberrechten juristisch festgeschrieben haben, weltweit den sechsten Platz ein. Das argentinische Gesetz zum Urheberrecht kennt weder Ausnahmen für Bibliotheken noch für Universitäten. Studenten und Dozenten, die ... more

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Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright

Chris Armstrong, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya, Achal Prabhala, Tobias Schonwetter (eds.)

Claremont: UCT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp.

"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen ... more

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Scholarly Publishing in Africa: Opportunities & Impediments

Solani Ngobeni (ed.)

Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa (2010), xxv, 378 pp.

"The proceedings of a conference held at the Africa Institute of South Africa in 2009, this is a major new collection of essays on the state of scholarly publishing in Africa, with a strong emphasis on the situation in South Africa. The conference was convened, and the papers published, in an attemp ... t to influence “policymakers and other relevant stakeholders in developing an enabling environment for scholarly publishing to thrive.” Containing a total of 26 papers – all of them, usefully, preceded by abstracts – content is arranged under seven sections: (i) The State of Research Publishing in Africa, (ii) The State of Scholarly Publishing in Africa, (iii) The Challenges of Book Distribution, (iv) The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Scholarly Publishing, (v) Alternative Publishing Models, (vi) The Politics of Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing, and (vii) Scholarly Publishing and Intellectual Property Development in Africa. While the majority of the contributors are from South Africa, other contributors include Kenyan veteran publisher Henry Chakava, James Currey of James Currey Publishers, Mary Jay, Chief Executive of the Oxford-based African Books Collective, and a number of academics from the West African region. The book is particularly strong in overviews of scholarly publishing in South Africa, covering both book and journal publishing. It offers some interesting discussions and fresh insights about alternative publishing and distribution models, with articles reporting about new initiatives and strategy approaches, and also including papers on the politics and practise of the peer review process, and on South African intellectual property rights. One or two papers, by academics from other regions of Africa, unfortunately are weak and poorly informed about the current state of scholarly publishing in Africa, for example citing literature that goes back to books and articles published in the 1970s and 1980s. However, the book can be seen as a useful companion to ‘African Scholarly Publishing Essays’, edited by Alois Mlambo, and published by African Books Collective in 2006." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2581) more

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Kulturflatrate: Auf der Suche nach einem Internet-kompatiblen Urheberrecht. Eine Zusammenfassung zu Begriff, Hintergrund und Stand der Diskussion

Tim O. Petschulat

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 20 pp.

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Digital Media Law

Ashley Packard

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell (2010), ix, 352 pp.

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Access to Knowledge: A Guide for Everyone

Frederick Noronha, Jeremy Malcolm (eds.)

Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, Regional Office for Asia Pacific and the Middle East (2010), 133 pp.

"Access to knowledge (A2K) is the umbrella term for a movement that aims to create more equitable public access to the products of human culture and learning. Fields of advocacy that it subsumes include most centrally copyright and patent law reform, open access, open data and open standards, but al ... more

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Argentina Copyleft: La crisis del modelo de derecho de autor y las prácticas para democratizar la cultura

Villa Allende: Fundación Vía Libre; Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2010), 172 pp.

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The ABC of Copyright

Paris: UNESCO (2010), 89 pp.

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Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Pradip Ninan Thomas

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xix, 267 pp.

"This book is a critical study of the political economy of communications in India. It explores the ways in which contexts, policies, and processes at national and international levels shape media structures and studies how a political economy-inspired approach can be used to understand both media d ... more

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Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century

Julien Hofman

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), xiii, 152 pp.

"The authors of all kinds of works, from the humble email to blockbuster films, rely on copyright to protect what they produce. But authors and those who use their work are often unclear about what copyright allows and what it prohibits. This book was written for those who want to learn about copyri ... more

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Imagine There is no Copyright and no Conglomerates Too: An Essay

Joost Smiers, Marieke van Schijndel

Rosalind Buck (transl.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2009), 80 pp.

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An Introduction to Copyright and How to Use It

Caroline Morgan

Tokyo: AsiaPacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) (2009), 47 pp.

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Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere. Vol. II: National and Global Movements for Democratic Communication

Laura Stein, Dorothy Kidd, Clemencia Rodríguez (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2009), ix, 267 pp.

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Winning the Web: Stories of Grassroots Campaigning for Access to Knowledge in the Networked Digital Age

Becky Hogge

Open Society Institute (2009), 49 pp.

"This report has looked at six successful intellectual property (IP) reform campaigns from around the world, and examined the strategies, messages and goals of the campaigners who fought them. Although each example has its own lessons to share, broad trends have emerged. Several of the most striking ... more

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El derecho de autor y los derechos conexos en la industria de la música

Juan Carlos Monroy Rodríguez, Ximena Rojas Murcia, Johanna Sáenz Ardila, Camila Arias Ospina

Bogotá: Unidad Administrativa Especial (2009), 47 pp.

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Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source

David M. Berry

London: Pluto Press (2008), xiii, 257 pp.

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Digital Media Content Provision Without Copy Protection as an Alternative Business Model

Bastian Keller

Köln: Institut für Rundfunkökonomie an der Universität zu Köln (2008), 86 pp.

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Romania

Gheorghe Zaman, Valentina Vasile, Rodica Parvu, Catalin Darasteanu

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2008), pp. 163-249

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Ukraine

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2008), 103 pp.

"The study showed that, in 2005, the contribution of the copyright-based industries (CIs) to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine amounted to 2.85 per cent or 12,583.54 million UAH. At the same time the total contribution of the core CIs constituted 1.54 per cent or 6,815.61 million UAH. The ... more

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Colombia

Alberto Castañeda Cordy, Rafael Cubillos López, Armando Sarmiento López, Jaime Vallecilla Gordillo

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2008), 87 pp.

"The total value added of the copyright-based industries in Colombia reached Col$9.5 millions of millions in 2005 (approximately 4,800 million US dollars) from Col$5.7 millions of millions in 2000. As a percentage of GDP, the CBI represented an average of 3.3 per cent throughout the period. In real ... more