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Intellectual Property

Copyright – South Africa

• Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – ConCourt hearings were on 21/22 May 2025.  Ruling still awaited one year later.
• Music Royalties in South Africa and Who Gets Paid Under Copyright Law
• Training AI with copyrighted books ruled ‘fair use’ in US: Implications for SA

Copyright – Globally

• Can a rhythm be owned? What a reggaeton lawsuit reveals about how copyright misunderstands music
• Can you own a voice? Taylor Swift’s latest legal move raises big questions for AI and copyright (trademark)
• Canada:  Copyright year in review – 2025-2026 – final version
• Copyright in AI Prompts: Chinese Court Ruling on Generative AI and Originality
• Starting from slogan, copyright protection demands multiple-pronged approach

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI, Copyright, and the Future of Creativity
• Malatsi moves to rescue South Africa’s botched AI policy
• The Global Evolution of AI Fact-Checking: Copyright and Research Gaps
• The pastiche exception in copyright law: what recent cases mean for creators and for AI
• Three copyright rulings and an EU deadline have rewritten the rules for AI images
• US Copyright Registration Guidance:  Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence – General

• Artificial intelligence and uncertainty
• Ban for Authors Submitting AI Content ‘Welcome but Unenforceable’
• Cybersecurity Will Swallow Digital Policy in the AI Age
• Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
• Glossary of artificial intelligence (Wikipedia)
• Instant AI answers can trivialise human intelligence, warns Royal Observatory
• Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’
• Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions?
• Living guidelines on the responsible use of generative AI in research
• On Memorization
• Pope approves creation of Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence
• Targeted consultation on the draft guidelines for the classification of high-risk artificial intelligence systems (EU)
• The jagged frontier of AI and law (Podcast)
• The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
• What are AI guardrails?
• Your AI Glossary: 54 Terms Everyone Should Know

Misinformation/AI Hallucinations

• A Bibliometric Analysis of Disinformation through Social Media
• A Framework for Information Disorder:  Modeling Mechanisms and Implications Based on a Systematic Literature Review
• A Strategic Roadmap for Mitigating Generative Artificial Intelligence Hallucination
• AI Hallucinations and the Misinformation Dilemma
• AI is getting more powerful, but its hallucinations are getting worse (2025)
• AI Misinformation vs AI Hallucinations: What’s the Difference
• AI keeps inventing fake cases. Lawyers keep citing them
• Asking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study finds (2025)
• Combatting Disinformation: Analyzing Effective Communication Strategies and Tactics for Organizational Resilience
• Deep Fakes
• Fact or Fiction? Artificial Intelligence Misinformation
• Future of disinformation studies: emerging research fields (2023)
• “Hacking and information disorder: the weaponization of leaking”
• Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
• Hallucination Mitigation using Agentic AI Natural Language-Based Frameworks
• Information disorder: disinformation, misinformation and a ‘polluted’ information space
• Information Disorder and Resilience in the Global South: Structural Drivers, Governance, Media Literacy, and Fact-Checking
• Information Disorder Report (Council of Europe)
• Key insights from BBC Media Action’s research into information disorder around the world (2024)
• Mapping the Impact of Generative AI on Disinformation: Insights from a Scoping Review
• Mis- and disinformation (OECD)
• Misinformation vs. Disinformation in the Age of AI
• Misinformation, Disinformation & Malinformation: A Guide (Princeton Library)
• New sources of inaccuracy? A conceptual framework for studying AI hallucinations
• Scientists’ behaviour towards information disorder: A systematic review (2024)
• The Risks of AI Hallucinations and Misinformation: An Examination of ChatGPT and DeepSeek
• The trust crisis in artificial intelligence: AI hallucinations and human-AI collaboration
• When AI ‘Fictions’ Redirect History: Generative Models, Historiography and Misinformation (2025)
• When AI Gets It Wrong: Addressing AI Hallucinations and Bias

Open Access, A2K, Research and Scholarly Communication (incl. AI)

• A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop
• AI-generated papers overwhelm academic peer review
• Analysis reveals AI’s impact on research, journals
• APC Caps and Bans — Why Funder Policies Aimed at Curbing the Publishing Industry Don’t Work
• Artificial intelligence as a reflexive collaborator in graduate studies supervision (2025)
• ArXiv to Ban Authors for a Year Over Unchecked AI-Generated Research Papers
• Calls for African code of conduct for research integrity
• ChatGPT in thematic analysis: Can AI become a research assistant in qualitative research?
• Framing the source: How African newsrooms present information disorders
• Generative AI creates transparency crisis in research
• Guest Post — A Friendly Debate: Where Automation Will (And Should) Land in the Research Lifecycle
• Guest Post — When AI Helps Write Research: What Happens to Lived Experience?
• Guest Post — When Thinking Is Outsourced: A Warning from a Scientist Trained Before AI
• Harvard-backed ToolUniverse reaches 500,000 AI agent analyses across 113 countries
• NASA just dropped more than 12,000 Artemis II photos—here’s how to see them
• Promoting Collaboration and Partnership among Science Academies in Africa (ADI2026)
• Taking digital inequality seriously for digital public infrastructure and data governance
• The Arithmetic of Prestige: How Research Metrics Began to Measure Everything Except Thought
• UNESCO 2026 Global Education Monitoring Report
• University of Free State drops AI detectors over accuracy concerns
• Why Scholarly Societies Must Compete Through Stewardship, Not Scale

Research Integrity – Challenges & Deceptive Practices

• Five early warning signs of research misconduct
• If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
• Researcher Ordered to Repay Grants Over Alleged Plagiarism
• Scientific Integrity in the Age of AI and the challenges of transparency: Fraud, manipulation, and the new transparency challenges
• The rise of ‘predatory’ publishing (2026)

Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)

• Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities
• Envisioning AI’s Role in Libraries: Perspectives from an LIS Student, a Library Director, and a University Librarian
• From Information Literacy to AI Literacy: Preparing Librarians for Emerging Responsibilities
• Leveraging Technology, Copyright, and Libraries to Benefit the Public Interest
• Librarians as guides in the age of AI
• Libraries as proactive agents in the age of artificial intelligence (AI): an interview with Loida Garcia Febo
• The future of libraries: a dialogue with CUHK’s university librarian
• Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy
• Why Libraries Matter Now More Than Ever to Democracy: Legal and Policy Issues Affecting the Future of Public Knowledge

Workshops/Webinars – 2026

• Scholarly Horizons – Topics Include: Copyright, Plagiarism, Citation and Quotation, Open Access, Scholarly Communication, Deceptive Publishing Practices, AI Issues, POPIA, Data management and Archival matters, and Others – For more information, email: Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com 

Online Symposium – 2026

• IFLA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence 2026 – Theme: “Building an AI-Empowered World: Practical Applications of AI” – 9-13 Nov 2026

Conference 2026

• LIASA Annual Conference 5-9 October 2025, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Intellectual Property

Copyright – South Africa

• Books, language and knowledge ownership: Why publishing and copyright matter in South Africa
• Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.

Copyright – Globally

• Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People from Reading and Speaking the Law
• CC’s position on key copyright issues
• Copyright In the Age of Digitization: Who Is Responsible For Publishing Copyrighted Content on Video Sharing Platforms?
• Copyright News—European Court of Justice: A ‘pastiche’ is a not a catch-all for any sort of music sampling, (Apr 20, 2026)
• Fair Use in the U.S. Economy – 2025 Edition
• Futility of copyright in the Internet era
• Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered
• by WIPO (2^nd ed)
• Is the African Group Proposal on L&Es Consistent with EU Law?
• New White Paper on Institutional Copyright Policies and Article Versions
• New WIPO Guide Casts Doubt on Open General Exceptions
• Report on a roundtable on music, generative AI, and copyright at the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law
• Steal like an artist? What copyright law actually allows
• UK Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Mar 2026)

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI and Copyright: Government adopts wait and see approach (UK)
• Can AI-generated content infringe pre-existing copyright works?
• Copyright owners v AI developers: the emerging trends
• How African creators are currently being exploited in the AI boom
• Human Authorship Is Still Central To Copyright Eligibility
• Is Copyright Law the Wrong Weapon Against AI? 5 Questions
• The AI Dilemma: Copyright, Incentives, and the Future of Creativity
• The Character Without an Author: Character Copyright Protection in the Age of Generative AI
• Training AI on copyrighted content is not infringing, says Trump administration
• Training AI on Copyrighted Works: Comparative Legal Frameworks
• Whose AI Is It Anyway? Key Developments in the Evolving Relationship Between AI and IP
• Who Owns the Rights to AI-Generated Images? A Straightforward Guide to Copyright Law
• Who Wrote This? Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence – Africa

• Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence 8 April 2025
• African Observatory on Responsible Artificial Intelligence
• African Union – Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024
• AI In Africa – Key Concerns and Policy Considerations for the Future of The Continent (2022)
• How can we best use AI in African public policy?
• Knowledge Governance and Just AI – Cradle Report
• Leveraging artificial intelligence for public policy-making in Africa: Policy recommendations – 2024
• Malatsi withdraws SA’s draft national AI policy

Artificial Intelligence – General

• A fragmented landscape: Bridging the copyright gap in Africa
• A Modern AI Risk Management Framework
• Advancing Responsible AI Adoption and Use in the Public Sector: Three Policy Priorities for State Legislation
• Africa must help shape global AI governance, expert says
• AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It.
• AI Without Canada: Why the Heritage Committee’s AI Report Could Lead to Less Canadian Content in the Training Data
• Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
• Artificial intelligence and education in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
• Fact Check Team: Exploring the evolution of artificial intelligence regulations
• Measuring Usage in the Age of AI
• New Government Policy Shows Japan Favors a Light Touch for AI Regulation
• Penalties stack up as AI spreads through the legal system
• Republic of Ghana National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2025-2035)
• The European approach to artificial intelligence policymaking
• “The foundations of AI systems are flaky”
• The 2026 AI Index Report (Stanford University)
• Three ways artificial intelligence (AI) is putting gender equality at risk.
• ‘Too Dangerous to Release’ Is Becoming AI’s New Normal
• ‘We need to dismantle the myths’ surrounding AI in education
• We need to talk about failure in science
• What AI-authored Books Mean for the Publishing Industry
• What Claude and OpenClaw Vulnerabilities Reveal About AI Agents
• Where AI Gets Its Info From? The Top Sources in 205 and What They Mean for Business
• Who in universities owns the time saved in the AI era?

Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication

• Basic Education commemorates World Book and Copyright Day, 23 Apr
• Beyond journals: Unlocking a new currency for scholarship
• Citation self-awareness for a fairer academic publishing landscape
• Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter
• F1000 extends Open Research Africa platform to all authors in Africa
• Guest Post — Diamond Open Access: A Lifeline for the Monograph?
• How open source ideals must expand for AI
• It’s a jungle out there: Where do South African universities stand on AI?
• It’s time for academics to take community action on AI
• Open Access Policy (Australia)
• Open Source, After Mythos
• Peer review in the time of artificial intelligence
• Perceptions of fairness and bias in the scholarly publishing ecosystem: Insights from a new report
• Safeguarding research in a changing global landscape
• So much research is already free to read in Australia – but it’s not getting the support it needs
• South Africa and Australia advance National Open Science Policies
• South Africa moves to punish scientists acting ‘improperly’ – Call for Comments:  SA Natural Scientific Professions Draft Bill (by 15 May 2026)
• South African Open Science Policy (2026)
• Update on CC Signals: What Changed and Why
• What 6,000 researchers think about the future of science
• What Publishing Leaders Say About AI When They’re Not on Panels: A Pulse on All Things AI

Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)

• Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities
• AI in Libraries: What It Means Today and How to Get Started
• Library & AI: Why Libraries Still Matter in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• March 2026 issue of IFLA Journal [Special Issue: Indigenous Knowledge]
• South Africa celebrates World Book Day with calls for action to promote reading

Research Integrity – Challenges & Deceptive Practices

• Academic Publishing’s Hidden Tax: Why Kenyan Universities Pay Twice
• Adopting a united front against paper mills
• Editorial: Facts are in crisis. What are we going to do?
• Fake Authors, Real Citations: Scientists Discovered a Preprint Plagiarism Network
• Governance mismatch threatens academic integrity in era of generative AI
• Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
• If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
• Opinion: Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers
• Potholes in the academy: Navigating toxic academic practices in South Africa
• Predatory university rankings jeopardise the value of Webometrics
• US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices

Workshops/Webinars – 2026

• Scholarly Horizons – Webinars/Workshops – 2026 (copyright, plagiarism, open access, scholarly communication, predatory publishers, AI, and various other topics)

Online Events – 2026

• ASSAF AI Lekgotla: Don’t talk to me, talk to my agent: Academics and the Agentic Revolution – 20 May 2026
• IFLA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence 2026 – Theme: “Building an AI-Empowered World: Practical Applications of AI” – 9-13 Nov 2026
• IFLA Webinar – Transforming Library workflows through AI agents – 15 May 2026
• LIASA – Digital preservation and archiving best practices – 21 May 2026
• LIASA – Understanding the Use of AI in Libraries – A Practical Workshop – 7 May 2026
• WIPO SCCR Public Lecture & Cocktail with Prof. Maggie Chon (Hybrid) – 18 May 2026

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Intellectual Property

Copyright – South Africa

• Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
• Copyright and Artificial Intelligence in South Africa: Rethinking Authorship and Originality in the Digital Age
• Social Media Posts and Memes: A South African Perspective on the Intersection of Copyright Law, Internet Use and Privacy (2023)
• South Africa’s copyright revolution: New protections for digital creators

Copyright – Globally

• Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional Scrutiny
• Fair Use in the U.S. Economy – 2025 Edition Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use.
• From Copyright to Contract: How User Rights Are Being Reshaped
• Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered by WIPO – Second edition
• IP and Data Rights In Africa’s Digital Economy: A Protective–Adaptive Blueprint
• Why much of Canada’s national art collection isn’t online

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI, copyright and the creative industries
• Attribution & AI Outputs
• Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
• Copyright, AI, and the Limits of Voluntary Licensing: Analysis
• Copyright & AI in the UK: The Debate Rolls On
• EU: Report on copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges
• Global Atlas of Copyright Exceptions for AI and Machine Learning
• Is authorship inherently anthropocentric? Thaler, human authorship and the contracts quietly filling the gap
• Open-ended debate
• Parliament adopts INI report on AI and copyright: No clear path forward
• Reference giants launch copyright fight against OpenAI
• State of intellectual property governance of artificial intelligence in Africa Report
• This Bill Would Force AI Companies to Disclose Copyrighted Works
• UK: Policy paper: Report and impact assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
• UK Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence published
• UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI
• WIPO: Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (AIII)

Artificial Intelligence (General)

• AI and memory
• AI and the PhD student: friend or foe?
• AI Governance Takes Shape: Breaking Down Washington’s Latest AI Frameworks
• Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Ethics, and Digital Inequality: A Bibliometric Mapping in the Digital Media Era
• Business Talk – Prof Vukosi Marivate on building AI in Africa and shaping global governance (video)
• Educators’ perceptions and willingness to integrate Generative Artificial Intelligence in teaching and research: evidence from Kenyan higher education
• Decolonizing the Digital Classroom: A Critical Analysis of Power, Privilege, and Algorithmic Bias in AI-Mediated Learning Environments
• Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Professional Structures for the Predictive Age
• Leadership in the AI era
• Opt In or Opt Out: The AI Copyright Dilemma
• Regulating Artificial Intelligence Across Borders
• The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought
• The intelligence illusion: why AI isn’t as smart as it is made out to be
• Trump Administration Releases National Policy Framework on Artificial Intelligence
• UNESCO: Lao P.D.R.: artificial intelligence readiness assessment report
• You Don’t Need an AI Policy

Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication

• Artificial intelligence tools in scholarly publishing: guidance for peer reviewers
• Attribution & AI Outputs
• Do’s, Don’ts and Don’t Knows – Responding to AI in assessment in Universities:  A Practical Guide
• From Human Content to Machine Data – Introducing CC Signals
• Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do
• Guest Post — Could AI Help Fix Peer Review, or Will it Only Make Things Worse?
• Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective
• Hits and misses: South Africa’s participation in WSIS+20
• How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation
• ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
• OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 – Exploring Effective Uses of Generative AI in Education
• Open and Distance Learning Research Trends in Higher Education:  A systematic literature review of research in the Commonwealth from 2015 to 2024
• Research integrity in the age of open access and AI: The view from France
• Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
• STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI
• Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI
• Universities must clarify conceptual confusion around AI
• Who owns digital data about you? South African legal scholar weighs up property and privacy rights
• With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page?

Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)

• Algorithms, Archives, and the Layers We Usually Forget
• CC Hosts Open Heritage Statement Event in Amsterdam
• Copyright and Libraries in the Age of Generative AI: Evolving Roles, Emerging Risks, and Practical Strategies
• Ensuring Equitable Access to Heritage: The Need for an International Standard under the Auspices of UNESCO
• Guest Post — AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries
• Guest Post — Gen Z and Academic Libraries: Reading, but Differently

Retractions, Fraud, and Predatory Publishing Practices

• Co-authorship fraud: An academic scandal in plain sight
• Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal
• Paper Mills – For sale: scientific reputation
• Scientists warn fake research is spreading faster than real science

WIPO SCCR Events – 2026

• Webinar with expert commentary on the African Group proposal on Limitations & Exceptions – 9 April 2026.  
• Public Lecture & Cocktail with Prof. Maggie Chon (Hybrid) – 18 May 2026

Workshops/Webinars – 2026

• Scholarly Horizons – Webinars/Workshops – 2026 (copyright, plagiarism, open access, scholarly communication, predatory publishers, and various other topics)

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Intellectual Property

Copyright – South Africa

• Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
• Copyright Laws and Regulations South Africa 2026 (iclg)

Copyright – Globally

• Copyright Kills Competition
• Should YouTube Take Down Copyrighted Videos? Not Fair Use Videos
• The Copyright Conversation
• The Public Domain Shakedown: Paying for Rights No One Owns

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI’s billions won’t land here without copyright reform
• AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget
• AI Trends for 2026 – Copyright Litigation Shifts from Training Data to AI Outputs
• Copyright and AI Policy Needs Precision, Not Panic
• Experts Appointed to Oversee AI Copyright Lawsuits
• Reasonable Intelligence: How Should Platforms Be Held Accountable For AI-Assisted Copyright Infringement?
• Sony unveils AI tool aimed at detecting use of copyrighted works
• Text and Data Mining, Generative AI, and the Copyright Three-Step Test
• The Great Copyright Unraveling: How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewriting Intellectual Property Law Faster Than Courts Can Respond
• The world changed with a click: copyright in the age of AI

Artificial Intelligence (General)

• AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
• An overview of AI ethics: moral concerns through the lens of principles, lived realities and power structures
• ‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report
• From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens
• In the hands of innovators from the Global South, AI can transform lives
• Knowledgespeak Editorial – After AI Disclosure Comes Clarity: Why Classification Will Define the Future of Research Publishing
• Moving Beyond the Term “Global South” in AI Ethics and Policy
• Opinion: Is Artificial Intelligence a helpful tool or the cause of our downfall?
• Professors say fears of artificial intelligence long predate ChatGPT
• Researchers Discover AI Language Models Are Mirroring the Human Brain’s Understanding of Speech
• The artificial intelligence revolution (video)
• When AI outpaces understanding: HE must reclaim authority

Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication

• AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
• ASSAf Marks 30 years of Advancing Science for Public Good
• Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training
• Crisis in Peer Review: Academic Publishing’s Struggle for Integrity
• Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes
• Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR
• No-fee OA publishing in Africa policy brief and funding sources overview
• Open Access as a Launchpad: Educational Pathways in Early-Career Scientific Publishing
• Open Data Practices of Art – Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment
• Overhauling the knowledge economy: What can be done?
• Pedagogies in the age of AI: How to secure credible learning
• Do’s, Don’ts and Don’t – Knows Responding to AI in assessment in Universities:  A Practical Guide for Lecturers
• Safeguarding the art of lecturing in an AI age
• Should New Regulations be Imposed on Academic Publishing?
• The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it
• Unlocking the repository: A strategy for increasing the uptake of green open access
• Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It (Pt.1)
• Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It (Pt.2)

Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)

• Books and screens
• IFLA AI Entry Point for Libraries and AI
• Kenya: The accidental librarian keeping Kibera’s kids in books
• Safeguarding Libraries and their Users Against Unfair Contract Terms
• The 5th Freedom: Stephen Wyber (Knowledge Rights 21 & IFLA) (YouTube)

Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices

• AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals
• Aletheia-Probe: A Tool for Automated Journal Assessment
• New Tool Reveals the Vast Spread of Fraudulent Research Impacting Cancer Science
• Predatory journals and the quiet crisis facing academics
• The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now has 400 entries

Symposia/Workshops/Webinars 2026

• IFLA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence 2026 (November 9-13, 2026)
• Scholarly Horizons – Webinars/Workshops – 2026 (copyright, open access, scholarly communication and various other topics)

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Intellectual Property

Copyright – South Africa

• Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
• Copyright Laws and Regulations South Africa – 2026 (iclg)
• Mapping Moral Rights: An Analysis of What We Do Not Know About Section 20 of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 (not OA)

Copyright – Globally

• As the Calendar Turned Its Page, New Works Entered the Public Domain
• Balancing innovation with fairness: What transparency in AI means for copyright law
• Copyright Kills Competition
• Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly
• Embedded Videos — Fair Use or Infringement? What the Latest Court Decision Means for Publishers
• Fair Use Is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
• From Exception to Expectation: Advancing Accessible Content in Canada
• In landmark termination rights ruling, Appeals Court says songwriters can reclaim global copyrights under US law
• Looking for a Home for the Secondary Publication Right: Lessons from National Legal Frameworks
• Public Domain Day 2026: Duration of Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works in the UK
• Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship
• 2026 in public domain
• WIPO Toolkit on Access to Copyrighted Works in the Collections of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Libraries, Archives and Museums

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI Clones and Copyrights: What Creators Need to Know in 2026
• Copyright in the Age of AI: A Turning Point for Copyright Law
• Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
• Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will
• Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward
• INI on copyright and generative AI: Final assessment and recommendation (COMMUNIA)
• Search Engines, AI, and the Long Fight over Fair Use
• The Ethics of AI Generated Music
• Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It

Artificial Intelligence (General)

• AI as Normal Technology
• AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research
• AI isn’t conscious—but we may be bringing it to life
• AI laws of the world
• AI’s benefits need to be distributed across all disciplines
• AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
• Anticircumvention Law is Not the Right Solution to Webscraping
• Guest Post — AI Use: From Policies to Reality
• Guest Post — The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool
• Harnessing artificial intelligence for social good (Unicef)
• How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian
• Is AI dulling our minds?
• NWU becomes first South African university with official AI policy
• Productivity Commission releases final report into Harnessing Data and Digital Technologies (Australia)
• Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
• The Paradox of AI Assistance: Better Results, Worse Thinking
• Wikipedia owner signs on Microsoft, Meta in AI content training deals

Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication

• Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility
• From model collapse to citation collapse: risks of over-reliance on AI in the academy
• Guest Post — Open Scholarship is Poised to Create More Value than Ever, but Are We Ready?
• Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn
• JSTOR announces first 100 Path to Open books now fully open access
• Open Access in South Africa (2024)
• Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details
• Open Access Policies and Mandates Around the World
• Read and Publish Agreements negotiated by SANLIC
• Researchers must have right to stop papers becoming AI fodder
• Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers
• Safeguarding Scholarly Communication – Publisher Practices to Uphold Research Integrity
• To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition
• “What Are We Really Assessing?” Rethinking Evidence of Learning in the Age of AI
• Why scholarly publishing needs a neutral governance body for the AI age

Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)

• Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities
• Safeguarding Libraries and their Users Against Unfair Contract Terms
• The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy
• Twenty years of eBooks: How libraries turned a quiet shift into a global revolution in digital access
• Use of artificial intelligence technologies in rendering library services: empirical evidence from university libraries in Africa

Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices

• How AI Makes Predatory Journals More Dangerous (2025)
• Sage journal retracts more than 40 papers over concerns with peer review, author contributions
• Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
• When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes

Scholarly Horizons Webinars/Workshops – 2026

• New year – new horizons!  Are you interested in learning more about copyright, plagiarism, citation and improving writing skills, scholarly communication, open access, deceptive practices, POPIA for institutions, library issues relating to copyright, AI, digitisation, etc.?
• For more information, or to arrange a webinar, please contact Denise Nicholson, at Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com, or see Webinars / Workshops – Scholarly Horizons

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Intellectual Property

Copyright – South Africa

• All they ask is access to books: SA is failing the blind
• Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
• Fighting for the royalty treatment: IP disputes in SA’s music scene

Copyright – Globally

• Copyright and creative commons licenses in scholarly publishing: A practical guide for researchers
• Copyright bill passes, but schools urge deeper reform (Australia)
• Copyright’s Invisible Hand: Subsidizing America’s Cultural Institutions
• History of the Negotiations of the TRIPS Agreement
• New study: Navigating Legal Uncertainty in European Museums
• Photographer Loses Lawsuit After Museum’s Use of His Image Is Ruled Fair Use
• Reaction Videos and Copyright Law: Best Practices to Stay Out of Court
• The first major Generative AI and copyright case in Brazil: first impressions and challenges ahead

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
• Don’t Let Recent AI Lawsuits Fool You, Users Are Still Greatly Disadvantaged in a Digital-First Ecosystem
• GEMA v OpenAI: Memory is Fragile. Garbage Lasts Forever.
• The AI and copyright law policy dilemma (UK)
• The future of AI in Africa must be just
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Thought
• Who is responsible for agentic AI?

Artificial Intelligence (General)

• A global publishing scam assisted by AI has targeted Australia. Here are 5 tips to avoid scammers
• Africa’s AI Governance Landscape
• AI in Public Decision-Making: A Philosophical and Practical Framework for Assessing and Weighing Harm and Benefit
• AI security risk in Africa: The interplay of digital infrastructure and economic participation
• Artificial Intelligence: Progress or peril? (Video)
• Artificial intelligence in education
• Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
• Cost Savings, AI and the Public Sector
• EU prepares to delay landmark AI rules by one year
• Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
• Moving Beyond the Term “Global South” in AI Ethics and Policy
• Teaching Responsible Use of AI
• Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence (A Global Study 2025)
• Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing
• Responsible use of generative artificial intelligence tools in research practice

Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication

• AI and the Future of Learning
• AI and the Future of Universities
• Big Ten Open Books
• Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing
• cOAlition-s-announces-2026-2030-strategic-plan-to-advance-open-access-and-equitable-knowledge-sharing
• Co-creating knowledge: Implementing localised open educational practices in blended learning environments
• Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science
• Generative AI Chatbots in Higher Education: Student experiences and perceived ethical challenges
• How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research
• Open science crucial to reversing scant access to knowledge
• Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud in the U.S.
• Reframing failure in digital scholarship
• South Africa to host two international science meetings
• The Case for a EU Digital Knowledge Act
• The hidden cost of open access: Artificial intelligence, paywalls and the risk of knowledge inequity
• You don’t need to steal art from the Getty to have it at home. The museum is giving it away

Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)

• A New Paradigm for Librarianship: A Review of Library Associations’ Work and AI from 2019 Until the Present
• AI Literacy for Library Workers: self-study course
• Benchmarking AI Models in the Library: Critical Questions for Library Professionals and Users
• From Backwater to Battleground – Law, Libraries, and Research
• Future Trends of Open-Source AI in Libraries: Implications for Librarianship and Service Delivery
• Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit
• How libraries and publishers are shaping the future of AI in research
• IFLA Entry Point to Libraries and AI
• Launching our new Digital Preservation Policy
• Libraries as agents of decolonisation: Exploring the integration … in South African public higher education libraries

Marrakesh Treaty (2013)

• How to get Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Wrong
• Marrakesh Monitoring Report 2025

Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices

• Retraction Watch – Weekend reads:  Our cofounder credited in fake citation; …

Webinars

• Webinars/workshop on various topics, including Copyright, plagiarism, scholarly communication, open access, deceptive publishing practices, POPIA, etc. – For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com