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Item Copyright: how to use your photocopier & computer lawfully(South Africa. Department of Sport, Arts & Culture: Librsary and Archive Services Directorate. Free State Provincial Library and Information Service, 2008) Nicholson, Denise RosemaryThis article gives practical tips when making reproductions for educational purposes.Item Document for Commonwealth Countries on Copyright Matters in Education(Commonwealth of Learning, 2005-05) Hofman, Julian; Kawooya, Dick; Nicholson, Denise Rosemary; Ntuma, Augustine; Prabhala, Achal; Schad, Robert; Schoenwetter, Tobias; Tladi, Lekopanye; West, PaulThis document discusses copyright issues and provides guidelines on copyright limitations and exceptions for education in Commonwealth countries.Item Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS-plus: implications for developing countries in Africa(www.ifla.org, 2005-12-05) Nicholson, Denise RosemaryThis paper will focus mainly on issues affecting access to knowledge in African countries and implications of international intellectual property agreements. It will show that the majority of these countries are struggling to meet the very basic requirements of the TRIPS Agreement, yet they are now being pressured by developing countries to adopt even stricter intellectual property regimes through the IP Chatper or "TRIPS-Plus" in Free Trade Agreements. The paper highlights the impact of Free Trade Agreements and TRIPS-Plus on education, libraries, people with sensory-disabilities, public health and development in general.Item Intellectual Property: benefit or burden for Africa?(Sage Publications on behalf of IFLA, 2006) Nicholson, Denise RosemaryThis paper highlights some of the issues affecting access to knowledge in South Africa and other Afrian countries, as well as the implications of international intellectual property agreements, focusing mainly on copyright. It will show that the majority of these countries are struggling to meet th very basic requirement of internatinonal intellectual proeprty agreements, yet some of them are being pressured by developed countries to adopt even stricter intellectual property regimes through the Intellectual Property Chapter or 'TRIPs-Plus' in Free Trade Agreements. The paper highlights the impact of some of the TRIPS-Plus provisions on education, libraries, and people with sensory-disabilities, as well as public health and development in general.Item Librarians can make a difference(Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA), 2008-04) Nicholson, Denise RosemaryThis article describes how librarians can make a difference in lobbying for change in copyright legislation.Item Burning issue: How does copyright affect you as librarians, researchers, teachers?(Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA), 2008-07) Nicholson, Denise RosemaryThis article defines copyright and provides guidelines to librarians, researchers and teachers on how to apply the Copyright law to reproduction for educational and non-commercial purposesItem What has copyright got to do with newspapers? - A South African perspective(Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, 2005-03) Nicholson, Denise RosemaryCopyright has various practical implications and complications for newspaper publishers, as well as for consumers and collectors of newspapers. This paper discusses some of these issues from a South African perspective