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Intellectual Property
Copyright: South Africa
- Artists rally behind copyright and performers’ protection bills
- Who is the Real ‘Enemy’ of Artists in the Copyright Chess Game?
- Who’s ‘Pulling the Wool Over Whose Eyes’?
- Why Should a Human Rights-Related Copyright Bill Sink AGOA?
- South Africa: Copyright Amendment Bill approved by NCOP on 26 September 2023 (will now go through the National Assembly processes for concurrence)
Copyright: General
- Analysis – ASTM vs PRO (Fair use case)
- Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market
- How Do Artists Tackle the Confluence of AI and Copyright?
- How To Download Free Copyright Music from YouTube
- Humans of Bombay Vs People of India: Can an Idea Be Copyrighted?
- Is Someone Selling Your Dissertation Without Your Permission?
- Joining the Call for Canadian Copyright Reform Now
- Navigating NFTs, copyright and trademarks: insights from South Africa
- Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless
AI and IP Issues
- An old master? No, it’s an image AI just knocked up … and it can’t be copyrighted
- Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Who Has the Right to Machine-Generated Art?
- Artificial intelligence vs. copyright: Examining high-stakes battle over content
- Coinbase CEO Calls for Deregulation of Artificial Intelligence
- Cold Open: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Authorship in Film and Television Writing
- Copyright Liability for Generative AI Pivots on Fair Use Doctrine
- Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law – Analysis
- Hollywood Writers Reached an AI Deal
- Lawmakers Drill US Copyright Head Over Protections for AI Art
- OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work
- Thomson Reuters Will Head to Trial in AI Model Copyright Battle
- United States: OpenAI Faces Legal Battle from Authors Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
AI (General)
- Academic writing has completely changed: Turnitin forges ahead
- AI, Copyright & Research Resources
- Artificial Intelligence Compromises Academic Integrity
- GPT, Large Language Models, and the Trough of Disillusionment
- 10 Ways to Win In the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- To Err is Not Human: The Dangers of AI-assisted Academic Writing
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communications
- Digitisation and Digital Curation Resources
- Ending Human-Dependent Peer Review
- How Does Mandated Code-sharing Change Peer Review? An Interview with PLOS Computational Biology
- Measuring Metadata Impacts on Discoverability: A Conversation at the 2023 AUPresses Meeting
- Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist
- Resources on Open Science
- Publishers, Don’t Use AI Detection Tools!
- Scholarly Peer Review is an Age-Old Practice, But Publishing is Changing
- Swap Authorship for ‘Movie Credits’ Approach, Academics Suggest
- The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen
- Why open source is the cradle of artificial intelligence
Predatory Publishing Practices & Detection Tools
- Predatory Practices and Citation Pollution
- Rising number of ‘predatory’ academic journals undermines research and public trust in scholarship
- Fidelior™ Research Tool – (to check journal titles & reference lists)
- Think, Check, Submit Tool (for publications)
- Think, Check, Attend Tool (for conferences)
Conferences/Webinars – Alerts
- IFLA Webinar – Rescuing our world from the harms of censorship: Providing access to information in unprecedented times – 4 October 2023
- LIASA Annual Conference 2023 – Cape Town, South Africa – 10-13 October 2023
- Global Summit on Diamond Open Access – Toluca, Mexico, 23-27 October 2023
- 1st Tacet Knowledge Management Davos Forum – Unlocking the Power of Tacit Knowledge – Davos, Switzerland – 13-14 November 2023
- Fantastic Futures – Annual International Conference – AI for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Internet Archive Canada, Vancouver, CA – 15-17 November 2023
- Science Forum South Africa 2023 – Pretoria, South Africa – 6-8 December 2023
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