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Intellectual Property
Copyright South Africa
- Copyright bill a positive development, says advocacy group
- Copyright bill enables creatives to own their work and be paid fairly
- South African Copyright Amendment Bill B13f-2017 – Some Benefits of Fair Use
- Stop the misinformation! Debunking the myth that South African law does not protect image rights against deepfakes
Copyright Globally
- All you need to know about the lawsuit against Sci-Hub and LibGen
- Copyright Waffle Episode 25 With Professor Carys Craig
- Did TikTok mute your video? Here’s how you can avoid and fix Music Copyright claims on TikTok
- New Issue Alert: Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship: Special Issue on DEIA in Copyright Librarianship (Vol. 7 No. 1; 2024)
- Nigerian Music Copyright Laws: Balancing Artists’ Rights With Digital Streaming Services
- The Ultimate Guide to Rights Reversion
- Unlocking the Potential of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es)
- What They Are Saying: EU Copyright Directive (Article 15)
Fair Use Benefits
- Applying fair use doctrine to generative AI – Singapore
- Benefits of Fair Use
- Considering the Role of Fairness in Copyright Fair Use
- Fair use: What is fair use and how can you use it to your advantage
- Fair Use Best Practices & Resources
- Fair Use Myths & Facts
- Fair use in the U.S. Economy – Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use (2006)
- Fair use in the U.S. Economy – Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use (2010)
- Fair use in the U.S. Economy – Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use (2017)
- Fair use in the U.S. economy 2017 – Executive Summary
- Fairly Useful: The Many Ways Fair Use Helps Industry
- Transplanting Fair Use across the Globe: A Case Study Testing the Credibility of U.S. Opposition
- Unpacking Fair Use: A Legal Battle Between Sculptors and Photographers in the NFL
- Unpacking the positive sides of fair use for society and creatives at large
- Why is Fair Use Good for Authors?
Traditional Knowledge
- We have a new treaty! Report on the conclusion of the WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
- WIPO Member States Adopt Historic New Treaty on IP, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Copyright issues)
- AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing
- AI in Education, Part 3: Best Practices for Teaching and Learning
- AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals. Here’s why that’s OK
- Are academic researchers embracing or resisting generative AI? And how should publishers respond?
- Artificial Intelligence: What are 4 major cyber threats for 2024
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Expertise in Graphic Design
- Association of Research Libraries Releases Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence
- Books Are Big AI’s Achilles Heel
- But is it cheating? AI in Education podcast episode
- ChatGPT “contamination”: estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature
- Future of Creativity: AI’s Impact on Intellectual Property Law
- Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions
- Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
- Machine as Author: Perspectives on AI-Created Works and Copyright
- Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Paper
- TikTok to start labeling AI-generated content as technology becomes more universal
- What if AI wrote this post? – An inquiry into the impact of AI on the creative industries (Guest post)
- Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work
Open Access, A2K and Scholarly Communication
- Bad Law – Legal and Regulatory Responses to Misinformation In Sub-Saharan Africa 2016–2020
- Harnessing Reliable Evidence in the Post-COVID Era: A Practice Guide to Navigating the Ocean of Medical Literature
- Hidden Costs of Academic Dishonesty: The Case of Indonesia
- Honest Signaling and Research Integrity
- How To Identify Predatory Conferences with Susan Veldsman
- It Takes a Village brings together open-source programs serving cultural and scientific heritage to develop shared sustainability strategies.
- Plagiarism: A Bird’s Eye View
- Please Don’t Steal My Work, by Maria Toft
- Putting Research Integrity Checks Where They Belong
- ‘This is literally my biggest fear’: Student issues warning after false positive. She even deleted Grammarly
Conferences/Webinars
- 14 June 2023 – Workshop: Librarians are the Key to Bridge the Digital Divide: Are You the One?
- 1 – 4 October 2023 – LIASA Conference – Libraries in an Age of Democracy – Durban, South Africa.
- From 18 June 2024 onwards: Webinars on Scholarly Communication and Deceptive Publishing Practices; Research Integrity and Writing Honestly (including copyright, plagiarism, etc.); POPI Act and other topics –
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