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For a more comprehensive set of links to resources related to copyright, access to knowledge (A2K) and intellectual property rights, please visit ACA2K Policy & Dissemination Advisor Denise Nicholson's web portal.

• Berne Convention
• WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs)
• WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT)
• Universal Copyright Convention

• African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO)
• Copy/South Research Group
• Commonwealth of Learning (CoL)
• Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI)
• Consumers International (CI)
• Creative Commons (CC)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL)
• iCommons
• Information Society Project (ISP), Yale Law School
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
• IQsensato
• Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
• Open Society Institute (OSI)
• Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PJIP), American University
• Wikimedia
• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
• World Trade Organisation (WTO)

General African Portal:
UNESCO Collection of National Copyright Laws
This UNESCO site contains links to national copyright laws in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Togo, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Links to ACA2K Study Country Laws:
The copyright laws of the ACA2K study countries are available on each country's Country Node page, via these links:
Egypt | Ghana | Kenya | Mozambique | Morocco | Senegal | South Africa | Uganda

• Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D), American University in Cairo (AUC)
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA)
• Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) Inititiative, African Association of Universities
• Intellectual Property Law & Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT)
• Publishing Using Alternative Licensing Models (PALM Africa)
• LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand
• Shuttleworth Foundation
• The African Commons Project (TACP)
  
  

Bartow, A. ‘Fair use and the fairer sex: gender, feminism and copyright law’ (2006) American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and Law. Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=902632 [Accessed 1 May 2009].

Boyle, J. ‘A manifesto on WIPO and the future of intellectual property’ (2004) Duke Law and Technology Review 9. Available at http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2004dltr0009.html [Accessed 1 November 2009].

Chon, M. ‘Intellectual property from below: copyright and capability for education’
(2007) 40 UC Davis Law Review 803. Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
papers.cfm?abstract_id=971294 [Accessed 1 November 2009].

Consumers International Asia Pacific Copyright and access to knowledge: policy recommendations on flexibilities in copyright laws (2006) Consumers International, Kuala Lumpur. Available at http://www.consumersinternational.
org/Shared_ASP_Files/UploadedFiles/C50257F3-A4A3-4C41-86D9-74CABA4CBCB1_COPYRIGHTFinal16.02.06.pdf [Accessed 1 November 2009].

Crews, K. Study on copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives (2008) WIPO, Geneva. Available at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=109192 [Accessed 1 November 2009].

De Beer, J. (ed) Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization’s development agenda (2009) Wilfred
Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON; Centre for International Governance
Innovation; International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Available at http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-139311-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html [Accessed 1 July 2010].

Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) eIFL handbook on copyright and related issues (n.d.). Available at http://plip.eifl.net/eifl-ip/issues/eifl-handbook-on [Accessed 1 January 2010].

Fometeu, J. Study on limitations and exceptions for copyright and related rights for teaching in Africa (2009) WIPO, Geneva. Available at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=130241 [Accessed 1 January 2010].

Garnett, N. Automated rights management systems and copyright limitations and exceptions (2006) WIPO, Geneva. Available at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=59952 [Accessed 1 November 2009].

Prabhala, A. and Schonwetter, T. Commonwealth of Learning copyright audit (2006) Commonwealth of Learning (CoL), Vancouver. Available at http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/COLCopyrightAudit.pdf [Accessed 1 November
2009].

Rens, A., Prabhala, A. and Kawooya, D. Intellectual property, education and access to knowledge in Southern Africa (2006) Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (TRALAC), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). Available at http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/docs/06%2005%2031%20tralac%20amended-pdf.pdf [Accessed 1 November 2009].

Ricketson, S. WIPO study on limitations and exceptions of copyright and related rights in the digital environment (2003) WIPO, Geneva. Available at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=16805 [Accessed 1 November 2009].

Sirinelli, P. Exceptions and limits to copyright and neighbouring rights (1999) WIPO, Geneva. Available at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=1266 [Accessed 1 November 2009].

Sullivan, J. Study on copyright limitations and exceptions for the visually impaired (2007) WIPO, Geneva. Available at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=75696 [Accessed 1 November 2009].

WIPO The forty-five adopted recommendations under the WIPO development agenda (2007) WIPO, Geneva. Available at http://www.wipo.int/ip-development/en/agenda/recommendations.html [Accessed 1 November 2009].