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Intellectual Property
South Africa:
- Call for public comments on the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13D-2017] and Performers’ Protection Bill [B24D-2016]– deadline 4pm on 27 January 2023.
- Right to Research Seminars – 23-27 January 2023 – Register at: recreatesa.live/R2K
- Webinars on Copyright and Related Topics (or email denise.nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com for information)
Other IP Matters:
- AI and IP resources
- Australia Launches Copyright Enforcement Review & Consultation
- Canada: Social Media And Copyright: What Are The Common Copyright Limitations And Issues Users Face?
- Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet new trade obligation
- Copyright Education and the Role of Library Associations: Current Practices and Needed Support
- Copyright Terms and Extensions
- Disney to lose rights to Mickey Mouse as the character enters public domain. But there’s a caveat
- Examples of Text and Data Mining Research Using Copyrighted Materials
- 5 famous music copyright cases
- Interview: On Copyright Scams, Surveillance Capitalism and the Lies of Big Tech
- No, the Lensa AI app technically isn’t stealing artists’ work – but it will majorly shake up the art world
- Public Domain Day 2023 (USA)
- Social Media and Copyright: What are the Common Copyright Limitations and Issues Users Face?
- Something is afoot with copyright this Public Domain Day
- South Korea: Legal Standards In Korea For Permissible Web Crawling
- The Italian Implementation of the New EU Text And Data Mining Exceptions
- The Role of Copyright Law in Text and Data Mining Research
- The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next
- The Year in Copyright: 2022 Gives Creators Hope for the Future
- The Year in Review: 2022 in The Scholarly Kitchen
- 20 New Copyright Policy Recommendations
- User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer
- USPTO and Copyright Office Announce Joint Study and Request for Comment on the Impact of NFTs on Intellectual Property Rights
- WHO proposed instrument on pandemics: the Conceptual Zero Draft …
Collection Management Organisations (CMOs)
- Falling Short: The Status of RROs In Africa
- Raising Standards for CMOs
- SA Music Industry exposed – money not going to artists
- South Africa: Information Regulator Bares Its Teeth in Music Royalties Investigation
- The Status of Reproduction Rights Organisations (RROs) In Africa
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication
- Delivering the right of access to information for persons with disabilities: ,,,
- Elsevier Retracts 500 Research Articles
- Fidelior research tool – Services
- Identifying predatory academic journals and conferences
- Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
- Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms
- Making scientific publishing easier around the world
- Open Access is dead: Long live Open Access
- Textbooks containing publicly funded research should be free for students: Opinion
- The Quiet Invasion of ‘Big Information’
- Transformative Agreements in the EIFL Network
- University of Göttingen Leads Project on Publishing and Reading Free from Fees
- Webinars on Scholarly Communication and Deceptive Publishing Practices
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