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Intellectual Property
- Copyright in the Courts: A Roundup of Key Copyright Decisions for 2023 (US)
- Copyright law will shape how we use generative AI
- Copyright Liability On LLMs Should Mostly Fall On The Prompter, Not The Service
- Fair use in an era of generative AI
- Figuring Out Fair Use – Debunking copyright myths and misconceptions
- How to Avoid Copyright Infringement on Social Media
- India: Navigating NFT Legality: Copyright Complexities in India
- Mickey Mouse is finally in the public domain. Here’s what that means.
- The Evolving Landscape of Intellectual Property: Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain
- The internet copyright machine wasn’t made for Mickey Mouse
- These Classic Characters Are Losing Copyright Protection. They May Never Be the Same.
- Unpacking the positive sides of fair use for society and creatives at large
Artificial Intelligence
- 9 Ways to Use AI in the Workplace
- A Running List of U.S. Copyright Office Decisions on AI Artworks
- AI predictions for 2024 – by a real person
- AI’s future could hinge on one thorny legal question
- All Science journals will now do an AI-powered check for image fraud
- An introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Boom in AI prompts a test of copyright law
- Copyright law is AI’s 2024 battlefield
- Five ways generative AI will transform scholarly publishing
- For all the hype in 2023, we still don’t know what AI’s long-term impact will be
- New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
- Should we welcome or worry about Artificial Intelligence? (YouTube)
- The New York Times Wants ChatGPT Gone—Nice Try Copyright murkiness is about the only sure thing that lies ahead
- What Is Artificial Intelligence? Beginners’ Comprehensive Guide
Scholarly Communication, A2K & Open Access
- A Pandemic-Accelerated Shift to Openness: The Case of Scholarly Publishing
- Are papers published in predatory journals worthless? A geopolitical dimension revealed by content-based analysis of citations
- Are you prey to predatory journals?
- Can science outpace commercial publishers?
- Dangerous Ideas: The Right to Read Freely (video)
- How Do Predatory Journals End Up in PubMed?
- How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey-based cross-sectional study of evidence synthesis experts
- Internet Archive Defends Digital Rights for Libraries
- Key Principles for Scientific Publishing – and the extent to which they are observed
- New White Paper: “Access to Science and Scholarship: Key Questions About the Future of Research Publishing”
- Predatory publishing in medical education: a rapid scoping review
- Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
- Record 10 000 research papers retracted in 2023
- Reflections on Peer Review and the Humane Future of Publishing
- Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access
- The amount of research in the last seven years has grown by 50 per cent. Are important findings being overlooked?
- The Case for Reform of Scientific Publishing
- The Complex Pursuit of Scholarly Publication: Experts share insights into overcoming hurdles and avoiding pitfalls.
- The Global Digital Compact: opportunities and challenges for developing countries in a fragmented digital space
- The Impact and Importance of Reporting Retractions in Biomedical Sciences
- The Right to Development: Principles, Realization and Challenges
- What Is Digital Citizenship And Why Is It Important?
- Why Europe needs a digital knowledge act
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