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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright bill a positive development, says advocacy group – response to misinformation about the bill.
- Long walk to copyright reform #9: The Copyright Amendment Bill ensures fair remuneration for South African creators and performers
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #8
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #7
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #6
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #5B
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #5A
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #4
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #3
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #2
- Long Walk to Copyright Reform #1
Copyright – Globally
- Amicus Briefs Filed in Internet Archive Copyright Case
- Copyright and Photographs
- Guidelines for the Use Of Copyrighted Materials And Works Of Art by Art Museums
- Hachette v Internet Archive: The Case Marches On
- How copyright makes the climate crisis worse
- Fair Use Check List
- Fair Use Best Practice Guidelines for Various Stakeholders
- Fair use of the copyrighted works in Bangladesh
- New York Disbars Infamous Copyright Troll
- Photographer Wins Copyright Lawsuit After Website Misuses His Creative Commons Image
- Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”
- Technology and Society: Copyright law, fair usage, and the future of AI
- The Truth About Sampling, Credits, and Who Gets Paid.
- Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician’s Guide to Research, Copyright and Publishing (eBook)
- We risk losing access to the world’s academic knowledge, and copyright makes things worse
Artificial Intelligence
- A University Librarian Asks: How Do We Rescue the Past?
- AI In Clinical Trials: Balancing Innovation and Ethics
- AI Trained on Copyrighted Works: When Is It Fair Use?
- AI-generated ‘academic papers’ raise alarms in scientific community
- AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know
- AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals
- AI-Incubated Research: The Stealthy Virtual Author in Academic Publishing
- Applying fair use doctrine to generative AI (Philippines)
- Beyond Burnout: AI as an Academic Ally in the “Publish or Perish” Culture
- Can AI Infringe Copyright? A Legal Analysis
- EU approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
- EU Parliament Approves Landmark AI Legislation
- European Union: The IP In AI: Can AI Infringe IP Rights?
- Fair Use Doctrine in the Age of AI Reproductions
- Generative AI Is Challenging a 234-Year-Old Law
- Is AI ready to mass-produce lay summaries of research articles?
- Is An AI-Created Song Subject to Copyright?
- Machine ‘Unlearning’ Helps Generative AI ‘Forget’ Copyright-Protected and Violent Content
- OpenAI to regulators: Training AI models without copyrighted material is “impossible”
- Papers and peer reviews with evidence of ChatGPT writing
- Science Podcast or Perish?
- Science Simplified: What Is Artificial Intelligence?
- Taylor & Francis: More Open Access for Researchers in Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
- The Battle Over Data: AI, Privacy, And Copyright Issues
- The Challenge of Science Communication in the Age of AI
- The first ‘Fairly Trained’ AI large language model is here
- The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?
- The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means. That’s a problem
- The UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure artificial intelligence is safe
- The White House issued new rules on how government can use AI. Here’s what they do
- Ultimate guide to generative artificial intelligence (AI) content
- Who pays for authenticity? – Resources for digital literacy
Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication
- ‘Access to law is foundational to the broader goal of access to justice’
- Charging Authors for Scientific Publishing is Fundamentally Flawed
- Enhancing Research Integrity and Publication Ethics: An Analysis of the Latest International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Recommendations
- ‘Exorbitant’ fees paid to academic publishers better spent on Australian research and education, report finds
- Idea Generation – Techniques, Tools, Examples, Sources And Activities
- International organisations for authors, publishers, booksellers and libraries call for key freedoms to be respected
- SANLiC and Taylor & Francis announce new open access program for researchers in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia
- The Future of Data in Research Publishing: From Nice to Have to Need to Have?
- The Value of Open Source Software
- Understanding why scholarly publishing today is a cultural, not technological, issue
- What Libraries Risk When They Go Digital
- Where in the World Is… This Public Domain Material? Helping Users Refer to Host Institutions.
- Who loses when scientific research is locked behind paywalls?
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