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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- It’s Time for the President to Sign the Copyright Amendment Bill
- South Africa Rejects Copyright Lobby Critique, Defends Broad ‘Fair Use’ Exceptions
- South Africa Stands Its Ground on Fair Use Expansions As the AI Copyright Battleground Goes Global
Copyright – Globally
- A Rare Copyright Win for The Public; But A Small One, Only In Canada, And Possibly Temporary
- Cantwell, Blackburn, Heinrich Introduce Legislation to Increase Transparency, Combat AI Deepfakes & Put Journalists, Artists & Songwriters Back in Control of Their Content
- “Copyright traps” could tell writers if an AI has scraped their work
- [Guest Post] Who owns the copyright to Nigeria’s “new” national anthem?
- Open Intellectual Property Casebook
- Songwriters Score Major Victory with Copyright Office Action (U.S)
- 10 Myths Every Documentary Filmmaker Should Know
- The COPIED Act Is an End Run around Copyright Law
- The misadventures of Tintin in the land of parody and freedom of artistic expression
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Including Copyright)
- A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: An Interview with Maxim Khan
- Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that
- AI – Ready? How African governments are assembling policy in anticipation for data and AI driven techno-futures.
- AI in Africa Meeting the Opportunity
- AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond?
- AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- AI produces gibberish when trained on too much AI-generated data
- AI promises to deliver education its holy grail–as it turns out, we’re on the wrong quest
- AI-Enabled Transformation of Information Objects into Learning Objects
- ALIA select committee submission on adopting artificial intelligence
- Another Functional Use of Generative Artificial -Intelligence: ChatGPT As The Reviewer Companion For peer-reviewed article
- Artificial intelligence web crawlers are running amok
- Can AI be an author? Federal Court asked to decide in new copyright case
- Canada’s Consultation on Copyright and Generative AI: A Look at the Submissions Received
- Does Generative AI Violate the Rights of Authors and Artists?
- Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education: The dynamics of ethical, social, and educational implications
- EU AI Act has implications for SA-based firms
- Guest Post — Chatbots: To Cite or Not To Cite? (Part I)
- Innovation and Artists’ Rights in the Age of Generative AI
- Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing?
- Questions for Consideration on AI & the Commons
- Soundscape: Tuning Out AI
- The Media Industry’s Race to License Content For AI
- The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of Generative AI (Part One)
- The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of Generative AI (Part Two)
- When is the inventor of an AI model also an inventor of the model’s output? A closer look at the USPTO Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions
- White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now
- With Open Source Artificial Intelligence, Don’t Forget the Lessons of Open Source Software
- World’s first major AI law enters into force — here’s what it means for U.S. tech giants
Open Access, A2k, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge
- Choosing a publisher? It’s not all about the impact factor
- Deep Dive: The Internet Archive Lawsuit and Its Impact on Digital Libraries
- Designer Science – Why big brand journals harm research
- Embrace AI in Libraries: Freeing Staff for Meaningful Work While Preserving Human Touch
- Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023
- Giving Up the Good Fight? – Librarians and Information Literacy
- I accept the terms and conditions (eBook)
- Microsoft’s Secret AI Publishing Deal Sparks Outrage Among Academics
- New tips for academic publishers aim to boost SDG delivery
- Opinion: The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing
- Pay researchers to spot errors in published papers
- Predatory conferences are on the rise. Here are five ways to tackle them
- Stop just paying lip service on publication integrity
- Taylor & Francis AI Deal Sets ‘Worrying Precedent’ for Academic Publishing
- The curse of influencer publishing
- The end of libraries as we know them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney
- The future of open research policy should be evidence based
- What To Do Once the Paper is Retracted: NISO Issues Recommended Practice on the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern
Webinars/Workshops – Alerts
- Navigating AI in Scholarly Publishing – Webinar – 15 August 2024
- Scholarly Horizons’ Webinars/Workshops – Topics: “Unmasking Deception: Promoting Integrity in Scholarly Communication”; “Beyond Words: Upholding Research Integrity with Honest Writing”; “POPI Act Demystified: Safeguarding Privacy in the Digital Age” and “Tailored Webinars/Workshops”
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