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Intellectual Property Seminars (2022/23)

Fair Use or Fared Use: How Fair Use Promotes Innovation & Creativity in an Information Economy – 13 December 2022

Intellectual Property Conferences 2022/2023

Right to Research (South Africa) – January 2023

World Science Forum, Cape Town, South Africa 8-9 December 2022

Intellectual Property

A Breakthrough in Negotiations on Intellectual Property, Protection of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge In WIPO?

AELK and EIFL Submit Comments On Kosovo’s Draft Law On Copyrights And Related Rights (2022)

Andy Warhol’s Prince portrait is about more than fair use law—it’s about the future of creative freedom

Australia: Can’t be Evil?  Considering Creative Commons NFT Licenses

Celebrating 10th Anniversary of Fair Use – Korean Copyright Commission. Copyright Forum 2022

Call for Submission on two SA Bills (CAB and PPB)

Copyright Reform in South Africa: Two Joint Academic Opinions on the Copyright Amendment Bill [13B-2017]

Demystifying NFTs and intellectual property: what you need to know

Hollywood’s Insistence on New Draconian Copyright Rules Is Not About Protecting Artists

Internet Archive matter: Amicus Brief of Kenneth D. Crews and Kevin L. Smith …

Internet Archive Pandemic Library Provokes Broader Lending Fight

New FAQ on NFTs and CC0

NFTs and Intellectual Property: What Do You Actually Own?

NFTs and Intellectual Property Rights

South Africa: Copyright Amendment Bill approved by NA – 1.9.2022 

South Africa: Workshop Report on Copyright Amendment Bill – 18.10.2022 (with videos and documents) 

South Africa: Workshop on Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill and Copyright Amendment Bill, with Deputy Minister – 25.10.2022 (videos & documents)

The CDL Lawsuit and the Future of Libraries

What is an NFT?

Will the “Artists’ Resale Right” Come to Canada and the US?

Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication

A.I. Is Exploding the Illustration World. Here’s How Artists Are Racing to Catch Up

Does Scholarly Publishing Have an Innovation Problem?

Guest Post – Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers

OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2022 (slides)

Open access: The universal norm?

Royal Society of Chemistry will make all its journals open access 

Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 – Presentations

Springer Nature Reaches 2000 Open Access Books 

The Future of Monograph Publishing