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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
Blind SA v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others (Blind SA II) – Judgment reserved on 28 November 2024.
The hearing of the President’s Ex Parte matter, i.e. referral of the Copyright Amendment Bill, will be heard by the Constitutional Court on 19 & 20 February 2025
Copyright – Globally
- A New Chapter? Hong Kong Proposes Introducing Copyright Exception for Text and Data Mining
- Flexible copyright exceptions 1: The next step for Europe?
- Flexible copyright exceptions 2: What can we in Europe learn from the US?
- How German libraries are able to copy their complete holdings, both analogue and digital, with the blessing of the German Copyright Act
- Major DMCA Reform: Copyright Office Grants Broad Right-to-Repair Exemptions Across Multiple Industries
- Technological Protection Measures & the Law: Impacts on Research, Education & Preservation
- The action to retain sufficient rights for academic works to make them immediately openly accessible and reusable.
- WTO members head towards a global review of the TRIPS Agreement
Design Law
- Introduction of new Design Law Treaty to benefit designers across the world
- Towards a Balanced WIPO Design Law Treaty (DLT) for Developing Countries
IP, Genetic Resources & Traditional Knowledge
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (incl. Copyright)
- 2024: main new legislation needing to be considered by companies in Spain
- Academia is Now an Obstacle to the Advancement of Science
- AI and the Sound of Music
- AI In Peer Review: Recipe for Disaster Or Success?
- ANI vs OpenAI: Copyright, AI, and the future of text data mining
- Canadian news media are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, but will they win?
- Copyright and AI in the UK: the balancing act
- Copyright infringement in the age of AI
- Trading with intelligence – How AI shapes and is shaped by international trade
- Generative AI Is Facing Decisive Battles in War Over Fair Use
- How copyright laws adapt to Generative AI
- Is using AI tools innovation or exploitation? 3 ways to think about the ethics
- Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes on Your Copyright
- News outlets lose copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
- Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training
- Some Legal Issues Concerning the Use Of Copyrighted Works In The Development And Learning Phases Of Generative AI
- The AI Mirror – review
- The Art of Attribution and Three Unlikely Theories of AI Authorship
- The Landscape of AI Regulation in the Asia-Pacific
- Tracking the Licensing of Scholarly Content to LLMs
- Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online
- Will AI kill Google? Past predictions of doom were totally wrong.
Open Access, A2k, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- A Third Transformation? Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing
- Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software
- Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
- Celebrating a century publishing excellence (Wits Press)
- Fake Academic Papers May Have Been Created with AI; Japanese Researcher Falsely Cited as Author on Overseas ‘Predatory Journal’ Website
- From Hypothesis to Publication: How AI is streamlining the entire research lifecycle
- Green Open Access – Free for Authors but at a Cost for Readers
- Identifying fabricated networks within authorship-for-sale enterprises
- Paywalls are Not the Only Barriers to Access: Accessibility is Critical to Equitable Access
- That Librarian by Amanda Jones review – one woman’s brave fight against book banning
- The MIT Press releases workshop report on the future of open access publishing and policy
- The Top Ten Challenges, Needs, and Goals of Publishers – and How AI Can Help in Digital Transformation and the Open Science Movement
- The academic peer review system to guarantee quality is broken. What could replace it?
- The paper mills helping China commit scientific fraud
- Knowledge Rights 21 – National Insights
- Knowledge Rights 21 – Webinar Recordings
- Where Open Access Has Failed To Reform Academic Publishing, Perhaps Antitrust Law Will Succeed
Public Lending Rights (PLR)
Conference Alert for 2025 in South Africa
Recreate SA, with its various partners, invites you to diarise the following dates for its Conference in South Africa –
Theme: Copyright and Development: An Agenda for Africa.
Dates and venues:
- 3 February 2025 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- 6 February 2025 at the University of Cape Town
There will be private meetings with policymakers and researchers on 4 and 5 February 2025, in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.
There will be no registration fee, but delegates will be responsible for their own travel, accommodation and other expenses. If you are interested in attending one or both of these conferences, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com for further information.
Scholarly Horizons Webinars
(For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com, or complete form at https://scholarlyhorizons.co.za/webinars-workshops/
Webinars – 2025
- A – “Unmasking Deception: Promoting Integrity in Scholarly Communication”
- B – “Beyond Words: Upholding Research Integrity with Honest Writing”
- C – “POPI Act Demystified: Safeguarding Privacy in the Digital Age”
- D – Webinars/workshops that can be tailored to your needs.
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