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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- After years of debate in parliament, Ramaphosa sends copyright bill to Concourt
- Blind SA’s Quest for Equity and Access Leads Copyright Bill to ConCourt
- Copyright cases will be heard at the Constitutional Court on 28 November
- Hybridity Provides Flexibility in Copyright Law
- President Cyril Ramaphosa refers Copyright Amendment Bill and Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill to Constitutional Court
- President Ramaphosa Refers the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) to South Africa’s Constitutional Court, Despite Section27’s Application to Compel Him to Sign the CAB into Law
- President Ramaphosa seeks Constitutional Court ruling on Copyright Amendment Bill (video)
- President’s referral notice to the Constitutional Court (CAB) 10 October 2024)
- President’s referral of Copyright Bill to ConCourt condemned – EFF
- ‘Prolonging exploitation of artists’: EFF slams delays in amendment bills
- Ramaphosa defended for referring bills to apex court
- Ramaphosa refers Copyright Amendment Bill to apex court to determine constitutionality
- President Ramaphosa refers two Bills to ConCourt
- Ramaphosa sends ‘atrocious’ copyright bill to Constitutional Court (15 Oct 2024)
- South African Guild of Actors chairman Jack Devnarain says they welcome President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision ……
- The Right to Equitable Remuneration in South African Copyright Law
- This is why Blind SA is taking legal action against Cyril Ramaphosa
Copyright – Globally
- Copyright and Preservation
- Copyright and Text and Data Mining
- Legal challenges and updates in music licensing for content creators (India)
- Rights Retention and Secondary Publishing Rights. An EIFL Guide for Libraries’
- Rights Retention and Secondary Publishing Rights (Webinar Recording)
- TDM Exceptions and Copyright: A German Court Decision
- The Internet Archive Loses Legal Appeal. 500,000 books Will No Longer Be Available Free to the Public
IP, Genetic Resources & Traditional Knowledge
Public Lending Rights (PLR)
- EIFL’s comments on draft WIPO Public Lending Right (PLR) Scoping Study
- WIPO PLR study is fundamentally flawed
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (incl. Copyright)
- AI and copyright: exploring exceptions for text and data mining
- AI Copyright & Human Authorship: The Legal Battle Over Theatre D’opéra Spatial
- AI Training Data Dilemma: Legal Experts Argue For ‘Fair Use’
- AI’s “human in the loop” isn’t
- Exclusive: EU AI Act checker reveals Big Tech’s compliance pitfalls
- Guest Post: Exploring the “Hopes and Fears” About Generative Artificial Intelligence in Web Scale Discovery
- Is Using Data to Train AI ‘Fair Use’?
- KR21 Principles on Artificial Intelligence, Science and Research
- My Publisher Fed My Book to AI
- New Report: 2024 State of the AI Regulatory Landscape
- Penguin Random House is adding an AI warning to its books’ copyright pages
- Resources on AI
- The accessibility of artificial intelligence
- The Flaws of Policies Requiring Human Oversight of Government Algorithms
Open Access, A2k, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- Access to science and innovation in the developing world
- cOAlition S Announces Releases an Independent Study on the Impact of Plan S, First Assessment of the Impact of Plan S Five Years After Its Launch
- Guest Post: Time to Rethink Usage Analytics
- Guest Post — Upholding the Integrity of Open Science
- Leveraging Transformative Agreements for Research Integrity
- Paper mills: the ‘cartel-like’ companies behind fraudulent scientific journals
- Reflecting on research misconduct: What’s next for the watcher community?
- What to Do if Your CC-Licensed Work is Misused
- WIPO Study: Research4Life Program Spikes Research Output by up to 75% in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Webinars – Alerts
Scholarly Horizons Webinars (For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com, or complete form at https://scholarlyhorizons.co.za/webinars-workshops/) –
- A – “Unmasking Deception: Promoting Integrity in Scholarly Communication”
- B – “Beyond Words: Upholding Research Integrity with Honest Writing”
- C – “POPI Act Demystified: Safeguarding Privacy in the Digital Age”
- D – Webinars/Workshops that can be tailored to your needs
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