http://www.accomputing.biz/trustDR/rss/rss.xml Trust In digital Repositories http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2007/06/repositories_conference.aspx JISC hosted a major conference on 5/6 June showcasing work concerned with managing and sharing resources. John Casey, TrustDR manager, made several presentations highlighting the role of IPR management in driving institutional change. 20 June 2007 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ Berkman White Paper, The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age reports on whether innovative educational uses of digital technology are hampered by copyright restrictions. 14 December 2006 http://www.accomputing.biz/trustDR/showArticle.php?id=37 TrustDR Comments on the Gowers Report 13 December 2006 http://www.accomputing.biz/trustDR/showArticle.php?id=23 The Royal Society has changed copyright arrangements for journal articles made available through its EXiS Open Choice service. Such articles will now be available under the Creative Commons 2.5 licence 15 November 2006 http://www.uhi.ac.uk/lis/projects/trustdr/work_in_progress.html The TrustDR project has released draft documents. We would like to invite comments on our work to date in order to make our final outputs as useful as possible. Please see the TrustDR Work in Progress page for full details. 09 August 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816930.stm On overly restrictive and unfair DRM and the need for new business models. 31 July 2006 http://www.rsa.org.uk/news/news_closeup.asp?id=1264 Who owns our genes? Who owns basic foodstuffs such as Basmati rice? In response to some of the most profound questions facing the 21st Century, the RSA this week launched its Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property. 31 July 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6052292.html A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. 29 June 2006