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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
Copyright Amendment Bill
- An Embarrassment of Royalties (Part 2) — Access to information lawsuit reveals music industry’s underbelly
- Deadline for Copyright Amendment Bill has lapsed
- Disability rights: Ramaphosa’s delay on Copyright Amendment Bill angers Blind SA
- Global campaign to legislate on heritage preservation started in Bogota
- Ramaphosa given ultimatum to sign Copyright Amendment Bill into law
Copyright – Globally
- Can AI Create Copyright? DC Circuit Weighs Human Authorship in Thaler v. Perlmutter
- Circuit Court Rules Against Internet Archive in Copyright Lawsuit Over Digital Library
- How A Copyright Case Is Shining A Spotlight On SCOTUS Ethics Issues
- Summary of User Rights Network Symposium: Protecting Copyright User Rights from Contractual Override
- The Internet Archive Loses Legal Appeal. 500,000 books Will No Longer Be Available Free to the Public
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Including Copyright)
- A Non-Technical Description of Generative Artificial Intelligence
- AI and Copyright: Legal Perspectives on Transformative and Extractive Uses of Copyrighted Works
- AI and copyright: What materials can be used and what can be protected?
- AI competency framework for students
- AI firms must play fair when they use academic data in training
- Artificial Intelligence Regulation Around the Globe: Get Ahead of Changing Laws by Understanding AI Now
- CEO of Microsoft AI speaks about the future of artificial intelligence at Aspen Ideas Festival (video)
- Copyright and the Training of Human Authors and Generative Machines
- Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
- Convention on AI: Ensuring Human Rights and Democracy
- Critical thinking in the digital age of AI: Information literacy is key
- Demystifying AI: Understanding The Real Impact Of Artificial Intelligence
- Digital Image Creation Using AI Risks Copyright Infringement
- Fair Use or Foul Play: Balancing Copyright and AI Engine
- From Fair Use To AI Abuse: The Copyright Drama Unfolding On Indian YouTube
- Guest Post — From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: AI’s Role in the Future of Peer Review
- How AI Cos. Can Cope with Shifting Copyright Landscape
- “It’s awful, it’s illegal, and it’s bad for our society”: Have AI music generators been trained on your music?
- Music rightsholders vary in approach to AI scraping
- Obvious artificial intelligence‐generated anomalies in published journal articles: A call for enhanced editorial diligence
- Risks and dangers of artificial intelligence
- UNGA adopts first resolution on artificial intelligence
- When it comes to artists using GenAI, copyright law should protect the creative partnership
- Why are legacy publishers trying to prevent universities from undertaking AI?
Open Access, A2k, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- Academic Publishers Face Lawsuit Over Anti-Competitive Practices
- Antitrust Lawsuit Filed Against Large Academic Publishers
- Ask the Community — Thoughts on a Class Action Lawsuit Brought Against Scholarly Publishers
- Challenges with measures used for assessing research impact in higher education institutions
- Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature
- Eroding trust in scholarly process
- How Africa can help to tackle global bibliometric coloniality
- How can I publish open access when I can’t afford the fees?
- Open access: a diamond in the rough?
- Peer review by committee? New journal rethinks old model
- Peer Review Demystified: What, Why and How
- Peer review practices called into question by anti-trust lawsuit
- Some Thoughts on the Promise and Pitfalls of Innovation and Technology in Peer Review
- The Prestige Factor Propping Up Academic Publishers
Webinars – Alerts
EIFL Webinars:
- Libraries, Copyright, Research and Development (16 October 2024)
- What’s fair in copyright? Fair use, fair dealing and fair practice (23 October 2024)
Scholarly Horizons Webinars
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
Topics include copyright, plagiarism, improving writing skills, publishing, deceptive publishing practices, OA, POPI Act, and others. For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com, or complete form at https://scholarlyhorizons.co.za/webinars-workshops/.
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