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monde3297

Secrecy Bill passed: The death of SA democracy? - 0 views

www.thesouthafrican.com/ssed-the-death-of-sa-democracy

secrecy bill in South Africa open access

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  • monde3297 on 20 Sep 14
     
    South Africa's National Assembly has today passed the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, despite the legislation being widely opposed and criticised. South Africa's Protection of State Information Bill, known informally as the secrecy bill, has been passed by the National Assembly with a majority vote of 229 to 107.
siyuwang

Clearing Up the Copyright Confusion: Fair Dealing and Bill C-32 - Michael Geist - 1 views

www.michaelgeist.ca/...fair-dealing-and-c-32

knowledge Publishing copyright bill dealing

shared by siyuwang on 03 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • siyuwang on 03 Dec 14
     
    Description: "Fair dealing has played a prominent role in the hearings on Bill C-32, with education and creator groups debating the merits and impact of the proposed reforms.  Unfortunately, much of the discussion has confused rather than clarified the issue with misleading claims about potential losses, inaccurate comments on copyright and Internet materials, and dubious arguments about the compliance of the reforms under international copyright law."
dudeec

Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles - 2 views

news.sciencemag.org/...e-free-access-journal-articles

Open access module 9

shared by dudeec on 23 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • dudeec on 23 Nov 14
     
    Breaking new ground for the open-access movement, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy doesn't kick in until January 2017; until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals as long as their paper is freely available within 12 months.
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  • dudeec on 23 Nov 14
     
    I did a quick search in the Web of Science database to see home many papers have received funding from the Gates Foundation. Since 2000, more than six thousand research papers have received funding from the Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation; more that one thousand per year since 2011. Most of these papers are in the infectious diseases, immunology, and public health area. In the big scheme of scientific publications, this is just a small number. But with their well-known name, this is a good sign.
  • ibudule on 23 Nov 14
     
    One must start form somewhere, and this is a good start for changing the attitude towards open access.
  • zimbron21 on 25 Nov 14
     
    Estoy de acuerdo con lo que plantean los autores, debemos volvernos seres con iniciativa, y no esperar a que el conocimiento nos llegue, nos debemos acercar a éste.
  • Alexandra Finch on 28 Nov 14
     
    This serves as a significant catalyst to change the mentality of both the researcher and the funder. The Gates Foundation is a leading organization in resolving world health issues. This action demonstrates their drive and desire toward their cause; and will hopefully it will start a trend amongst authors and other research funding NGOS.
  • ben_weir_ on 28 Nov 14
     
    As mentioned in class discussions, this is the only reasonable response. Bill and Melinda have put their time forth into creating charities, and attempting to control content which was given from charitable grants is lunacy. It is comforting to see the Gates foundation scrapping the 6-12 month window of restriction. WIth this said that said, this draws interesting parallels with journals that receive government grants due to the fact that the privately sold resource is already being funded by the tax payers.
siyuwang

Evaluation on the Resource I Shared: Clearing Up the Copyright Confusion: Fair Dealing ... - 1 views

In this article, the author provides an great explanation of the fair dealing and copyright issue in Canada, and clear up some confusions on this issue, especially the Bill C-32 Act. According to t...

started by siyuwang on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
siyuwang

Evaluation on the Resource I Shared: The Creators' Copyright Coalition - 1 views

According to this article "The CCC Position on Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act", the CCC, which is an alliance of 16 professional associations of work creators, and represents the positi...

started by siyuwang on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
siyuwang

The Creators' Copyright Coalition - 1 views

www.creatorscopyright.ca/...he-copyright-modernization-act

copyright knowledge dealing

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  • siyuwang on 03 Dec 14
     
    Article Title: The CCC Position on Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act
mbittman

About - iStock - Build It and They Will Come - 0 views

www.istockphoto.com/about-us

publishing sharing creating

shared by mbittman on 02 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • mbittman on 02 Oct 14
     
    History of iStock In 2000, if you wanted to load up on digital stock photos you had to buy a CD-ROM. But iStock realized that in the 21st century the old way of distributing images wasn't going to work anymore. Instead of trying to sell physical copies of digital files, iStock put images online for free and saw a creative community grow around this radical idea. Web designers loved it and downloaded as many pictures as they could. Some of them had digital cameras and started uploading images of their own. When the monthly bandwidth bills topped $10,000, we asked the iStock community if they would support paying for images. The response was overwhelmingly positive.
monde3297

Secrecy Bill - 0 views

www.r2k.org.za/secrecy-bill

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  • monde3297 on 20 Sep 14
     
    Introducing R2K's 2014 Secret State of the Nation Report Today the Right2Know Campaign releases its 2014 'Secret State of the Nation' report, a snapshot study of trends, patterns and challenges with secrecy in South Africa. The report's key findings include signs of abuse of secrecy and continued securitisation of some parts of the state: Increasing [...]
Jamie F

Bill to amend Canadian copyright laws - 2 views

On the Exhange with Amanda Lang (a show about business that airs here in Canada) host Amanda Lang talks about a bill that is in the works to amend the Canadian copyright law in order to give politi...

#module5 #freepress #publishing #copyright

started by Jamie F on 16 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
luispain

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz : Brian Knappenberger : Free Download... - 7 views

archive.org/...etsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz

module4 copyright

shared by luispain on 04 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Jacynthe Touchette on 04 Sep 14
     
    The story of Aaron Swartz, incredible programmer and activist for internet rights, open access and open knowledge. Good documentary to learn a little more about the open access movement, see some important figures (Tim Berners-Lee, Lawrence Lessig, etc.) and the fight against the SOPA bill. A big part of the movie is about his personal life and legal battle over copyright infringement. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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  • Kim Baker on 04 Sep 14
     
    I saw it a couple of weeks ago. It is a heart-rending story, very well put together. The issues it raises are very serious, and the cost of losing such a brilliant young genius to the world is immeasurable. It is a wake up call of magnitude. Thanks for posting this link.
  • hoanganh294 on 04 Sep 14
     
    It's such an informative and well-made documentary. After watching it I was so excited to know more about Open Access, which is one of the reasons I attend this online course. Thanks for sharing.
  • Jacynthe Touchette on 04 Sep 14
     
    Wow, this documentary can really have an effect, it's heartwarming to hear that the topic of this documentary is one of the reason you took this course! At the end of the movie I was half angry at the unjust prosecution of Swartz and the injustices on the access to knowledge and half uplifted, motivated to get more active on OA, OK and internet rights.
  • smoens on 05 Sep 14
     
    Although my interest was sparked by great open source projects, like R and PLOS, this documentary was a great inspiration a few weeks ago to relight that flame and join this course. Great to see how Aaron Schwartz still continues to be of inspiration to the open source community. Now and then I also love to go back reading stuff from his blog, e.g. his view on how to be productive (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity)
  • daniellew31 on 05 Sep 14
     
    I've been meaning to watch this for ages, thank you for bringing it to my attention again.
  • c maggard on 05 Sep 14
     
    Gonna drop the academic personna for a sec and say it just makes me so mad and so sad what happened to him.
  • anonymous on 17 Sep 14
     
    This was a great video! I enjoyed it very much and it was very touching. thank you for posting. @smoens - awesome blog too. thank you for the link.
  • luispain on 21 Sep 14
     
    For the Copyright section I recommend to watch this documentary: The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him.
irgbit

An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ne-magna-carta-berners-lee-web

module1 open web

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  • irgbit on 03 Sep 14
     
    The inventor of the world wide web believes an online "Magna Carta" is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new rules were needed to protect the "open, neutral" system.
anonymous

Potential Benefits and Pitfalls of Digital Healthcare - 2 views

This article describes an Android application called "Doctors On-Demand." This particular app is available in the United States, but I know of similar apps for Canada. The general idea is that inst...

module10

started by anonymous on 11 Nov 14 1 follow-up, last by anonymous on 11 Nov 14
shirley

Privacy Tool Kit - 1 views

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacyconfidentiality/toolkitsprivacy/privacy "Privacy is essential to the exercise of free speech, free thought, and free association. Lack of privacy and confidentia...

#Module2 #Privacy #Confidentiality

started by shirley on 29 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
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