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Intellectual Property
- AI May be Infringing on your Copyrights
- CARL Responds to Recent Media Coverage on Educational Copying
- CCIA Supports Fair Use in South Africa In USTR Filing
- Common Misconceptions About Generative AI and Copyright
- Copyright Fair Use for Educational Purposes: Empowering India’s Classrooms
- Copyright and fair use in the digital era
- Copyright Fair Use Examples
- Copyright Fair Use Regulatory Approaches in AI Content Generation
- Don’t Blame Copyright for Declining Revenue. It Won’t Help Authors
- Journalists seek regulations to govern fast-moving artificial intelligence technology
- Legal expert shares tips on protecting yourself from AI trouble
- Libraries Scold Rightsholders’ Attempt to Tweak South Africa’s Copyright Bill
- Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection
- NY Times Considering A Potentially Very Dumb Lawsuit Against OpenAI Because It Learned From NY Times Content
- OpenAI is facing lawsuits over copyrighted materials it uses to train ChatGPT
- Photo Agencies Band Together in Open Letter Pleading for AI Rules
- Publishers, Internet Archive agree to streamline digital book-lending case
- RIAA Piles on in the Effort to Kill the World’s Greatest Library: Sues Internet Archive for Making it Possible to Hear Old 78s
- Searching for the Owner: The Raging Copyright Issues In Generative AI Work
- The New York Times and Open AI: Newspaper copyright in the age of chatbots
- This archive broadened access during the pandemic. Then publishers sued — and won
- US judge: Art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted
- Use of AI Is Seeping into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
- We Need Smart Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence
- What you need to know about copyright issues surrounding generative AI
Scholarly Communication, A2K and Open Access
- A fake journal, algorithmic plagiarism and tricking Google Scholar
- Creating a Level Playing Field for Researchers in EIFL Partner Countries
- Judge Finds Revived Amazon E-book Monopoly Suit Should Proceed
- Paying for publications is at odds with knowledge creation
- Predatory journals entrap unsuspecting scientists. Here’s how universities can support researchers
- Wiley journal editors resign en masse, fired chief editor speaks
Artificial Intelligence
- Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name
- Artificial Intelligence and the risks to education
- Artificial Intelligence: A Boon or A Burden
- Artificial Intelligence: The Great Equalizer
- Elsevier takes Scopus to the Next Level with Generative AI
- How Smart Is Your Artificial Intelligence Policy?
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Definitions and Insights
- Why AI developers are being sued
Conference Alerts
- LIASA Annual Conference, Cape Town, South Africa – 10-13 October 2023
- World AI Summit – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – 11-12 October 2023
- 2nd Global Organisation Tacit Knowledge Management Forum – Davos, Switzerland – 12-14 November 2023
- Science Forum South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa – 6-8 December 2023
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