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South Africa: Call for Comments – deadline 8 September 2023
Marrakesh Treaty for the Visually Impaired
- Celebrating 10th Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty (video)
- IFLA attends WIPO GA/64, marking the 10th anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty
- The Marrakesh Treaty Turns Ten: Lessons Learned in the United States
Intellectual Property
- African Group exposes failures of WTO’s TRIPS Agreement
- An International Instrument on Copyright and Educational Uses: Regulatory Models and Lessons
- Ask the Expert: What are legal issues surrounding AI, its impact on the arts?
- Copyright challenges in the age of AI: Who owns AI-generated content?
- Copyrightability Of AI-Generated Work: A Brief Overview
- “Creative Commons” musicians sidelined by Sena
- Germany’s New Copyright Exception for Pastiche Applied for First Time
- GRULAC Advocates for Education, Research, and Cultural Heritage at the WIPO General Assembly
- Laugh Out Loud, legally: Copyright Considerations in Memes
- Library Copyright Alliance Principles for Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
- New AI systems collide with copyright law
- New SPARC Europe’s report on rights retention and open licensing in Europe
- Ninth Circuit Confirms Embedding Remains Fair Use (US)
- Opinion: Uses of Copyrighted Materials for Machine Learning (Israel)
- Regulation of Collective Management Organisations In South Africa (Ch 12)
- Searching for the Owner: The Raging Copyright Issues in Generative AI Work
- Shadow libraries” are at the heart of the mounting copyright lawsuits against OpenAI
- South African actors in solidarity with Hollywood actors’ strike
- Stop Rushing to Copyright as a Tool To ‘Solve’ The Problems Of AI
- The dawn of pastiche: First decision on new German copyright exception
- The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw
- The Impact of the Supreme Court’s Goldsmith Decision on Copyright Enforcement Against AI Tools
- Top 10 Reasons Fine Art Artists Should Monitor Their Art for Copyright Infringement
- US Copyright Act Can Address AI without Amendment
- Victory! Embedded Links to Photos on Instagram Don’t Infringe Photographers’ Copyrights, Court Rules
- Walled Culture
- What AI Can Teach us about Copyright and Fair Use
- What is Transformative Use? Warhol Copyright Decision Exposes Surprising Tension Between Usual Supreme Court Allies
- Writers Continue to Resist AI Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (General Issues)
- Warning over WhatsApp voice notes in South Africa
- AI is already causing unintended harm. What happens when it falls into the wrong hands?
- AI in education (actionable insights for educators)
- Here’s why you should be careful what you share with ChatGPT
- Federal Right of Publicity Takes Center Stage in Senate Hearing on AI
- Who will govern artificial intelligence?
- OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
- Rise of AI stokes fears research misconduct could accelerate
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication
- Big Ten Academic Alliance announces ebook launch
- Council calls for transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications
- eBook Pledge: Making eBook markets sustainable for the long term
- Guest Post — Ghost-writing Peer Reviews Should Be a Thing of the Past
- Leadership and Accountability Matter for a Sustainable Publishing Ecosystem
- No-pay publishing: use institutional repositories
- Open Science round-up: June 2023
- Scholarly paper pirating spikes in Japan, but critics slam journals’ ‘double-take’ fees
- Secondary publishing rights can improve public access to academic research
- The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy
- What is Diamond Open Access?
- Wiley’s Edifix Integrates with the Retraction Watch Database to Improve Research Integrity
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