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The right to freedom of information: ensuring access to historical documents

https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33390#trace-3

“The Parliamentary Assembly [of the Council of Europe] highlights the importance of the principle of transparency, including access to historical information held by public authorities, to foster a common historical heritage and a collective memory of the past, to support reconciliation and rehabilitation processes, to facilitate research and academic activities, as well as to improve public confidence in State institutions, good governance and accountability.”

LYKE STIL AND LOVE EVER

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorist-discovers-a-post-medieval-silver-thimble-engraved-with-a-love-poem-180984005/

“Metal detectorist Robert Edwards was searching at Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, when he unearthed a silver thimble inches below the soil. […]

The bottom of the artifact features a “posy” inscription, a type of engraving often found on rings that declare love or devotion. On the newly discovered thimble, capitalized letters spell out “LYKE STIL AND LOVE EVER,” which means “like enduringly, love forever,” per Artnet’s Verity Babbs.”

Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/03/13/copyright-as-an-access-right-concretizing-positive-obligations-for-rightholders-to-ensure-the-exercise-of-user-rights/

“A negative finding can suggest promising new directions, approaches and hypotheses”

Faced with experiments that can’t be reproduced, academia seeks to improve and “future proof” research:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/20/eureka-how-a-stanford-study-revealed-the-success-of-research-failures/

US-Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/judge-sides-with-openai-dismisses-bulk-of-book-authors-copyright-claims/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sarah-silverman-openai-lawsuit-claims-judge-1235823924/

Introducing a zero-embargo Secondary Publication Right in Bulgaria

https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/02/09/introducing-a-zero-embargo-secondary-publication-right-in-bulgaria/

The CNRA amendment of 1st December 2023 includes the adoption of an imperative restriction to the parties’ freedom of contract, prohibiting the contractual override of the above-mentioned Right to Re-use for certain types of re-use of certain works. The mechanism sets out specific rules concerning contracting between authors and publishers and is placed in a chapter of the law entitled ‘Contracts for publishing in periodicals’. A new para 2 to art. 60 states that:

“[t]he author of a work of academic literature created on the occasion of a research, funded in whole or in part by public funding, shall retain the right to make that work or parts thereof available in educational or scientific repositories for non-commercial purposes after its acceptance for publication by a publisher, and shall be obliged to mention the publisher when doing so.”

In terms of the type of works eligible for re-use, the new regime covers works of academic literature. There are no further requirements concerning the work or its length. Although the provision is placed in a chapter of the law regulating publications in periodicals, the scope of the norm itself is not limited to articles. In contrast with provisions in other jurisdictions, the new Bulgarian SPR also contains no restriction as to the version available for a secondary publication. The mechanism can equally apply to the version of record (VoR), as well as the author accepted manuscript (AAM).

Job: Archivist, National Chiefs Library, Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig

“Posting on behalf of Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig, one of Ontario’s nine post-secondary Indigenous Institutes in Ontario recognized in regulation under the Indigenous Institutes Act, 2017. Indigenous Institutes are Indigenous governed and operated institutions that provide opportunities for students to start and complete postsecondary education credentials in a flexible, personalized, and culturally responsive learning environment.

Located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig is seeking a full-time Archivist who will be responsible for establishing, growing, and making accessible Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig’s archival collections, which comprise Indigenous created archives, records, and oral histories in all formats and private archives from researchers of Indigenous issues, with thematic emphases on leadership, governance, treaties, community development, education, and resource management. Of note, the Archivist will manage the development of the “National Chiefs Library,” the archives of the Assembly of First Nations and its predecessor, the National Indian Brotherhood in accordance with Assembly of First Nations Resolution 21/2018. The core idea of the National Chiefs library to create the official repository for First Nations-created and First Nations-related research and scholarship information across the country. The Archivist also manages and develops a reference library collection to support research and use of the archives, as well as a gallery space for exhibitions in collaboration with other staff and partners.

The position reports to the Director of Operations and has a salary range of $95,000.00 – $106,869.00 (Canadian).

Please submit your resume; letter of application and three (3) work related references to the attention of Dianne Roach, Director of Operations to careers@shingwauku.org by March 5th 2024, before 4:30pm.

For the complete job description, see: https://shingwauku.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SKG_NCL_Archivist.pdf ” (EXLIBRIS-L)

https://shingwauku.org/library-archives/archival-services

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Witchy women

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/22/witchcraft-a-history-in-thirteen-trials-marion-gibson-book-review

“Marion Gibson, a professor of Renaissance and magical literature at the University of Exeter, has now written eight books on the subject of witches, including “Witchcraft Myths in American Culture” and “Witchcraft: The Basics.” Her eighth book, “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials” (Scribner), traverses seven centuries and several continents.”