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Intellectual Property
Copyright South Africa
- Blind SA & SECTION27 welcome the National Assembly’s vote in favour of the Copyright Amendment Bill
- Copyright Reform in South Africa from a Librarian’s Perspective: a Case Study Approach (Chapter 14 – pgs. 319-350)
- Copyright Act | Parliament breaks barriers to reading for the blind
- Follow The Money: Who is against the Copyright Amendment Bill?
- Marah Louw talks about her life work and why the Copyright Amendment Bill is urgent in South Africa
- New copyright bill gives Deaf and blind people a fair deal
- ReCreate Statement on the National Assembly’s Passing of the Copyright Amendment Bill & Performers Protection Amendment Bill
- SADTU’s statement on the passage of the Bills
- South Africa National Assembly Passes Sweeping Copyright Reform
- Timeline of Copyright Amendment Bill (B13-2017)
- Timeline of Performers’ Protection Bill [B24F-2016] (linked to Copyright Amendment Bill)
- Welcome progress, but one key step remains in updating South Africa’s copyright law
Copyright Globally
- Access to and use of public sector documents and public speeches – new policy paper
- Advocating for Access: The Movement to Reduce Cost Barriers to Research
- Bid to End Crown Copyright is Back: MP Brian Masse’s Bill C-374 Would Remove Copyright from Government Works
- Copyright: the world’s greatest money making machine (video)
- Copyright Fair Use: Distinction between Parody and Satire
- Court Confirms Reaction Videos Are Fair Use
- European Copyright Law and the Audiovisual Media: Are We Moving Towards Cross-Sectoral Regulation?
- Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part I
- Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part II
- Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: 2017
- Fair Use Week – The AI in Fair Use
- How does a recent landmark ruling change museums’ understanding of copyright?
- Implementation of TRIPS Flexibilities and Injunctions: A Case Study of India
- “Nobody puts research in a cage: Researchers’ perspectives on working with copyright.”
- The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 194: CCH Turns 20 – Scott Jolliffe Goes Behind the Scenes of the Landmark Copyright Case That Ushered in Users’ Rights
- The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning
- Why Fair Use Supports Non-Expressive Uses
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Copyright issues)
- Artificial Intelligence/Big Data/Text and Data Mining Webinar 2022
- Cyber Plagiarism: When Ai Systems Snatch Your Copyrighted Images
- Defining artificial intelligence for librarians
- Does generative artificial intelligence infringe copyright?
- Generative AI and Copyright: An Interview with Jonathan Band
- Generative AI Is Challenging a 234-Year-Old Law
- Libraries Play an Important Role in the Human Use of AI
- More than half of UK undergraduates say they use AI to help with essays
- Publishers and journals’ instructions to authors on use of generative artificial intelligence in academic and scientific publishing: bibliometric analysis
- United States: Lead Article: The Fair Use Frontier: Copyright Law In The Age Of AI And Machine Learning
- Why AI Worms Are the Next Big Cyber Threat and How To Protect Yourself Against Them
Scholarly Communication, A2K & Open Access
- Academy of Science of South Africa Open Science Policy (2024)
- Cradle Principles on Knowledge Governance Call for Information Justice In Research
- Creative Commons joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance
- Digital Cultural Heritage: Theory and Practice
- How To Select Scholarly Sources for Research Papers
- Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet
- “Quarter of scholarly record may be at risk” – report
- Research Integrity and Publication Ethics
- Search for DHET 2024 accredited journal list online
Deceptive and Predatory Publishing Practices
- Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences
- Investigating academic nurse researchers’ knowledge, experience, and attitude toward predatory journals
- NAS Webinar Series – Predatory Academic Practices in Nigeria: Combatting the Scourge
- Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw
- Predatory Publishing: Protecting Yourself
- Review mills identified as a new form of peer-review fraud
- The Science Journals That Will Publish Anything
- Unveiling the Unethical Practices of Paper Mills in Scholarly Journals: A Threat to Academic Integrity
- Vendor offering citations for purchase is latest bad actor in scholarly publishing
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