A saving grace for students across the world, Alexandra Elbakyan’s portal, Sci-Hub, pools millions of expensive academic papers published in online journals for free. At the center of a potentially multi-billion dollar court battle with US courts, she has vowed to continue her work. “There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge, I believe,” she told RT in an email interview, echoing her earlier reference to Article 27 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights: that “everyone has the right

Source: EXCLUSIVE: Robin Hood neuroscientist behind Sci-Hub research-pirate site talks to RT — RT News

If a for-profit business cannot prosper without demanding huge amounts of free labor, then surely the business model needs reinventing. And if enough professors refuse to referee without compensation, the reinvention will begin.

Source: Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No

The majority of academic papers are scarcely cited while a few others are highly cited. A large number of studies indicate that there are many factors influencing the number of citations. An actual re

Source: Factors affecting number of citations: a comprehensive review of the l

Against the Hypothesis of the End of Privacy

An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Social Media

via Against the Hypothesis of the End of Privacy – An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Social Media.

Advisory Committee on Enforcement : Sixth Session

Meeting Documents

Code	Title(s)	File(s)
WIPO/ACE/6/INF/1	: Liste des participants/ List of Participants : Liste des participants/ List of Participants
WIPO/ACE/6/1	: Agenda : Projet d’ordre du jour : Proyecto de Orden del día
WIPO/ACE/6/2	: Recent Activities of WIPO in the Field of Building Respect for Intellectual Property (IP) : Activités récentes de l’OMPI dans el domaine de la promotion du respect de la propriété intellectuelle : Actividades reicentes de la OMPI dirigidas a cultivas el respeto por la propiedad intelectual
WIPO/ACE/6/3	: Future Work of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) : Travaux futurs du Comité consultatif sur l’application des droits (ACE) : Labor futura del Comité asesor sobre observancia (ACE)
WIPO/ACE/6/4	: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods : Observations sur les efforts visant à quantifier les répercussions sur l’économie des produits contrefaisants ou pirates : Observaciones sobre los esfuerzos para cuantificar los efectos económicos de los productos falsificados y pirateados
WIPO/ACE/6/5	: Media Piracy in Emerging Economies: Price, Market Structure and Consumer Behavior : Le piratage des supports d’information dans les économies des paye émergents: prix, structure du marché et compportement du consommateur : La piratería de productos audiovisuales y de software en las economías emergentes: precios, estructura de mercado y comportamiento de los consumidores
WIPO/ACE/6/6	: Research Report on Consumer Attitudes and Perceptions on Counterfeiting and Piracy : Rapport de recherche sur l’attitude et la perception des consommatuers en matière de contrefaçon et de piratage : Informe de investigación sobre las actitudes y percepciones de los consumidores respecto de la fialsificaión y la piratería
WIPO/ACE/6/7	: The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy: A Literature Review : Examen des études consacrées aux conséquences économiques de la contrefaçon et du piratage : Examen de la documentación acerca de la de los efectos económicos de la falsificación y la piratería
WIPO/ACE/6/8	: A Study Relating to Existing Methods of Disposal and Destruction of Counterfeit Goods and Pirated Goods within the Asia Pacific Region : Étude relative aux méthodes actuelles d’écoulement et de destruction des produits contrefaisants et pirates dans le région asie et pacifique : Estudio sobre los métodos de eliminación y destrucción de mercancías falsificadas o pirateadas en la región de asia y el pacífico
WIPO/ACE/6/10	: IPR Infringements and Enforcement – Accounting for Socio-Economic, Technical and Dvelopment Variables : Atteintes aux droits de propriété intellectuelle et application des droits – la prise en consideration des variables socioéconomiques, techniques et en rapport avec le développement : Infracciones y observancia de los derechos de propiedad intelectual. La toma en consideración de las variables socioeconómicas, técnicas y de desarrollo
WIPO/ACE/6/11	: Summary by the Chair : Résumé du Président : Resumen del Presidente

via Advisory Committee on Enforcement.

Friday nights in Romania under the Communist regime which came to an end in December 1989, friends and family would gather in front of their television sets, trying to guess what they were actually watching. Telephone calls would be made, film reference and theory books consulted. Such detective skills were required due to the government’s censorship tactics, which included screening foreign films both on television and in cinemas with their titles altered beyond recognition, their credit sequences removed, entire scenes eliminated, and dialogue ideologically “cleansed” through the subtitling process. 1 Coauthor and Romanian national Ioana Uricaru recalls that “God” was invariably translated as Cel-de-Sus, or “the one above,” and “church” as edificiu, or “edifice.” 2 Sometimes films playing in cinemas would differ dramatically at the beginning and end of their run as elements requiring excision came to the attention of officials. 3Subtitling was the translation method associated with government media channels. As such, it was considered official, professional, and proper—both “ideologically correct” and the industry standard. With subtitles, interference of the “original” is kept at a minimum. 4 As lines of text superimposed onto the film image, subtitles neither erase nor noisily intrude upon the foreign soundtrack. Consequently, they are often viewed as a clean technique that respects the source material by enabling it to remain intact. However, in Romania the identification of subtitling with “quality” translation was compromised by its close link to adjacent practices of content deletion and paraphrasing for the sake of ideological alteration. The role that subtitling played in making meaning palatable for the “party line” meant that this technique was, concurrently, subject to suspicion and distrust

via Project MUSE – The Velvet Light Trap – Slashings and Subtitles: Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation.