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Intellectual Property
- A2k Coalition’s Analysis of WIPO’s Copyright Agenda
- Comments on Creative Commons Statement on Copyright and Generative AI
- Copyright for Librarians (Berkman Center for Internet and Society & EIFL)
- Copyright Office Recommends Renewal Of The Existing Text Data Mining Exemptions For Literary Works And Films
- Don’t Blame Copyright for Declining Revenue. It Won’t Help Authors
- Fairness & Fair Use in Generative AI (12th Annual Peter A Jaszi Distinguished Lecture: Prof Matt Sag) (video)
- Navigating Copyright for Libraries
- Nigeria: The Best Copyright Law in the World?
- The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 180: Victoria Owen Sets the Record Straight on the State of Canadian Copyright Law and Content Licensing by Libraries and Educational Institutions
- Webinar on International copyright, trade policy, and South Africa – 26 Oct 2023
- WIPO General Assembly 2023 (EIFL)
Artificial Intelligence, IP and Related Issues
- AI and the Law Webinar 13 Oct 2023 (webinar)
- AI issues – Letter to U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate
- AI struggles with fair use
- Artificial Intelligence Raises Questions On Intellectual Property And Ownership
- Copyright law in the age of AI
- Copyright Liability for Generative AI Pivots on Fair Use Doctrine
- Fact Sheet: Artificial Intelligence (CACNP)
- Forecasting the future of artificial intelligence with machine learning-based link prediction in an exponentially growing knowledge network
- Government of Canada launches consultation on the implications of generative artificial intelligence for copyright
- How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing
- How countries around the world are trying to regulate AI
- Navigating The Generative AI Intellectual Property Landscape
- New French copyright law for AI creations would just mean more money for collecting societies
- The 5 Biggest Trends in AI for 2024
- What’s the Difference Between Traditional and Generative AI?
- White House Releases Wide-Ranging Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence
Scholarly Communication, A2K & Open Access
- Academic Librarian: End to Controlled Digital Lending Would be ‘Detrimental’ to Community
- Climate Change and Human Health Glossary
- Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) Recommended Practice Public Comment Webinar – 10 Oct 2023
- EFF to Copyright Office: Copyright Is Indeed a Hammer, But Don’t Be Too Hasty to Nail Generative AI
- Embracing a sustainable open access future: removing barriers to publishing
- Guest Post — Reflecting on a Decade with the Open Discovery Initiative: Insights from IEEE
- Harnessing Digital Technologies for Education in Developing Countries: Need for a Judicious Approach
- How are exclusively data journals indexed in major scholarly databases? An examination of four databases
- How To Select Scholarly Sources for Research Papers
- Introducing Kitchen Essentials — Interviews with the Scholarly Infrastructure Community
- Open Access – 20 Years (EIFL)
- Open access: Need to move away from transformative agreements
- Publishing Perspectives: Our Coverage of Open Access Issues and Trends
- Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks
- Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market
- Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs. Accuracy, The Collapse of the Humanities, and a new NISO Draft on Retractions Standards
- Universities push open access-only approach to publishing
- Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
Predatory Publishing and Research Tools
- Guest post: A look behind the scenes of bulk retractions from Sage
- Is your scholarly reputation at risk?
- My journal was hijacked: an editor’s experience
- Rising number of ‘predatory’ academic journals undermines research and public trust in scholarship
- Sage retracts more than 200 papers from journal for compromised peer review
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