Good news! Fixing your car isn't illegal anymore! Great post by iFixit
https://goo.gl/yIg9IF

A post from Institute for Open Leadership fellow Jane Frances Agbu on how she came to appreciate Open Educational Resources in Nigeria
https://goo.gl/wuNP8L

How have you been Keeping up with the Commons? Enjoy this week's link roundup, with posts about Open Access, Mozfest 2016, and more!
https://goo.gl/nDdDnK

Do you �� unicode and the commons? Check out our proposal to get the CC logo and icons into unicode and give your feedback. (next up? Emojis!)
https://goo.gl/eRKDMp

Happy Halloween, by JLS Photography -- Alaska.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/akgypsy37/15650633836/i
CC BY-NC-ND

We're at #mozfest! Come make some CC crafts in Fuel the Movement, fourth floor! #throwpillows #wehaveswag
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMJCZfRBCAL/

Open access is not just about working to flip the default from closed to open. The OA movement should cooperate and collaborate with related communities of action, including the important work to rebalance the underlying systems of copyright to benefit creativity, innovation, and access to knowledge. #OAweek

Guest post by CC Uruguay team member Jorge Gemetto on the news that 14 people were convicted by an Uruguayan judge for the crime of making copies of educational resources. The defendants are owners of copy shops located near the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. The case began in 2013, when a major police operation shuttered copy shops in the area, confiscated photocopy machines, and detained 32 people.

New America Ed has published a new report that argues that open use policies should be the default for managing publicly funded information, including the adoption of open licensing policies for the digital outputs of public grant programs.

Via Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF):

"Open access has the potential to promote trade in high tech products and services, by assisting in the free flow of ideas and knowledge across borders and thereby stimulating innovation and business development around the world. In many ways, if we accept that intellectual property policy has a place in trade agreements at all, then open access rules should be a natural fit for inclusion amongst these rules." #OAweek

Authors! Get your rights back! Introducing a public beta of our Termination of Transfer tool (US only for now)
Check out the demo and try it out!
https://goo.gl/k2voGD

"We believe that the full research and economic benefit of published content will only be realised when there are no restrictions on access to, and re-use of, this information."
What does open access look like in practice? A perspective from Robert Kiley of Wellcome Trust https://goo.gl/TLsmZX #OAWeek2016 #oaweek

"Now we are living in a world where I can give you a copy at no expense to myself and retain all of my collection. So, suddenly, a thing that was of value to me can be of value to six billion people instead. It feels morally wrong, given the capacity we have to do that, not to do it." #OAweek

In Uruguay, 14 people have been convicted of the criminal offense of making copies of educational resources. This must stop. #FixCopyright

We're putting "Open in Action" for Open Access Week this week. https://goo.gl/BvBstG #OAweek

Bob Darnton calls for the new Librarian of Congress to champion open access to publicly-funded research, and work to democratize access to culture in the U.S.

Remember, Open Access Week 2016 kicks off on Monday. Lots of great education and events. #OAweek

U.S. taxpayers spend $100 million a year on policy research that's only accessible to members of Congress. Now a group of activists are making those reports available online for everyone. #OpenPolicy

Friends in the San Francisco bay area, next week the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a cool copyright conversation with tech policy journalist Mike Masnick of Techdirt. Free to attend. RSVP now!

Note: the event will also be streamed online. Good on ya, internet.