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Intellectual Property
South Africa: Copyright Amendment Bill – Calls for Submissions by Provincial Legislatures – See links below for Bills and information about submissions – (may send comments in your personal capacity or via institution/organisation):
- Mpumalanga – Legislature – deadline 17 February 2023
- Northern Cape Legislature – deadline 28 February 2023
- Western Cape Legislature – deadline 10 March 2023
- Gauteng Legislature – deadline 6 April 2023
Right to Research Seminars (South Africa – January 2023) – first 3 sessions (YouTube)
Other IP issues:
Authors, libraries at odds over copyright law change
Compliance of National TDM Rules with International Copyright Law: An Overrated Nonissue?
Copyright Terms and Extensions – not in the interests of developing countries
Courts Offer More Guidance on Enforcing Rights to Brands and Images Used with NFTs
Do AI images violate copyright? A lawyer explains the Stable Diffusion lawsuit
Exploring The Impact of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act on the European Union
Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug
5 plagiarism detection tools to tell if content is written by a bot like ChatGPT
Guest Post – AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts
Implications of AI art lawsuits for copyright laws
Interminable pause: Government must address harm caused by extension to copyright term
Reconceptualizing Open Access to Theses and Dissertations
Sign the Copyright Bill, EIFL Urges Nigerian President
Israeli Ministry of Justice Opines on Fair Use of Copyrighted Content for AI/ML Training
More means less: Extended copyright benefits the corporate few, not the public
‘This shouldn’t be a surprise’ The education community shares mixed reactions to ChatGPT
Wellspring of Creativity: Why Public Domain Matters
Africa: Banjul & Harare Protocols
Unpacking the Banjul & Harare Protocol Amendments
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication
Authors Sue Alleged ‘Predatory’ Publisher Over Unpaid Royalties
Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
European academies hit out at high author charges for open access publishing
Guest Post — Are We Providing What Researchers Need in the Transition to Open Science?
Nature article charges waived for global South authors
Open access publishing deal for low-, middle-income countries
Research Information Year Report 2022/2023
Return of the Big Deal: Developments in Texas and India
The Gaping Problem at the Heart of Scientific Research
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Thoughts on AI’s Impact on Scholarly Communications? An Interview with ChatGPT
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