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Intellectual Property
Copyright South Africa
- Advocating for Freedom of Panorama in South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill – various versions & SEAIS Report 2017
- Copyright Reform in South Africa from a Librarian’s Perspective: a Case Study Approach (Chapter 14 – pgs. 319-350)
- Letter to the editor: copyright article missed the mark (SA)
- Unpacking the positive sides of fair use for society and creatives at large
Copyright Globally
- Data Access and the EU Data Strategy: Implications for the Global South
- EFF Reminds the Supreme Court That Copyright Trolls Are Still a Problem (US)
- For the sake of expression, rewrite the copyright
- Internet Archive Files Appeal Brief Defending Libraries and Digital Lending from Big Publishers’ Legal Attack
- Kat Von D Wins Copyright Trial Over Miles Davis Tattoo
- Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Maria Gould of ROR
- Navigating Copyright for Libraries (IFLA)
- Richard Prince Effectively Settles, Dodging Post-Warhol Fair Use Ruling
- The Public Domain Benefits Everyone – But Sometimes Copyright Holders Won’t Let Go
- Copyright Priorities in 2024: What do the experts say?
Artificial Intelligence
- 15 Most Advanced Countries in Artificial Intelligence
- A Literature Review on Opportunities and Challenges in the AI Era
- Addressing equity and ethics in artificial intelligence
- AI and Copyright: Navigating the Legal Landscape
- AI-powered misinformation is the world’s biggest short-term threat, Davos report says
- Commentary: Could a court really order the destruction of ChatGPT?
- Copyright and Creativity in the Age of AI
- Copyright Office Affirms its Fourth Refusal to Register Generative AI Work
- Copyright Ownership of Generative AI Outputs Varies Around the World
- Creatives Battling AI Companies Over Copyright Turn to Congress
- Europe agrees landmark AI regulation deal
- Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
- Generative AI Is a Crisis for Copyright Law
- Guest Post — Hanging in the Balance: Generative AI Versus Scholarly Publishing
- How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI
- How Will Copyright Law and Plagiarism Change in the Age of GenAI?
- Internet Archive Seeks Reversal in Book Scanning Suit
- It’s Called ‘Artificial’ Intelligence for a Reason: Data Vs. Decisions
- The real issue with artificial intelligence: The misalignment problem
- Towards a right to repair for the Internet of Things: A review of legal and policy aspects
- (Un)fair Use? Copyrighted Works as AI Training Data — AI: The Washington Report
- Why copyright law is equipped to handle AI cases
Scholarly Communication, A2K & Open Access
- Can Academia Afford a Holiday Hiatus from Publish or Perish?
- Journals need to provide better guidance for victims of plagiarism
- Moving Beyond Article Processing Charges: Toward Equitable and Sustainable Academic Publishing
- Navigating the maze of scientific publishing
- Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership
- Open textbook project wins prestigious international award
- Plagiarism vs. copyright infringement: What’s the difference?
- Preservation and digitisation help libraries and archives be the guardians of the Public Domain
- Towards preserving Digital Culture: An interview with Amy Thomas
- What Did Creative Commons do for Open Culture In 2023?
- Who Counts? Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science
Deceptive and Predatory Publishing Practices
- Action against paper mills – COPE position statement
- Attempts to bribe journal editors a ‘very real concern’
- Authors publishing repeatedly in predatory journals: An analysis of Scopus articles
- How different incentives reduce scientific misinformation online
- How does bad data slip through? Allegations of research fraud raise questions about ‘peer review’.
- Unmasking the Unethical Practices of Paper Mills: A Threat to Academic Integrity
- Predatory publishing: Journals going rogue, authors beware!
- Publishing ethics committee warns of ‘problematic pollution’ of the scholarly record
- The Science Journals That Will Publish Anything
- Trust erosion in Academic Publications
- Trust in Scholarly Publishing
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