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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – The CAB hearing in the Constitutional Court will be on 21 and 22 May 2025.
- ReCreate SA – Resources on SA Copyright Amendment Bill –
- Scholarly Horizons – Resources on SA Copyright Amendment Bill
Copyright – Globally
- Copyright Lawyer Insights from the ALAI 2025 Copyright Year in Review (Canada)
- EIFL and MALICO Welcome Plans for New Copyright Office In Malawi
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (incl. Copyright)
- After AI in Africa: Some pertinent questions – Andrew Rens
- AI and copyright: is there a need to balance the rights of authors with the need to train AI?
- AI Licensing, Open Access and Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with Charles Watkinson, Director of the University of Michigan Press
- AI Strategy, Governance, and Monetization in Scholarly Publishing: Lessons from Industry Front-Runners
- Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values
- Artificial intelligence in journalism: new challenges for copyright law
- Copyright foundations of the music industry shaken by the rise of AI
- Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability
- Copyright Law Protects Creation and Expression; Not Discovery Of Ideas and Facts: ChatGPT Before Delhi HC
- Entrance to [Copyright] Paradise Halted by the Human-Authorship Requirement (U.S)
- ‘Fair Use’ in the Age of AI
- Full interview: “Godfather of AI” shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings
- GenAI is Not a Legal No Man’s Land
- Realising potential, supporting users: IFLA Statement on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
- Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price.
- Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it
- The Future of AI Art Regulation
- US Copyright Office on AI: Human creativity still matters, legally
- Using AI to create a ‘conversational archive’ at the National Sound and Film Archive (NSFA)
- YouTube Launches Free AI Tool to Create Copyright-Safe Music for Videos
- Where the legal battle stands around copyright and AI training
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- A Ph.D. in paper mills?
- African researchers warned to watch out for predatory journals
- Citation Cartels: The Mafia of Scientific Publishing
- Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
- Viewpoint: Junk science—The corrupting dangers of predatory journals, absent peer review and ideologically-tainted research
- When Do Scholarly Retractions Become a Form of Censorship?
Open Access, A2K, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- A Comprehensive List of Creative Commons and Public Domain Art Websites.
- Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s not always good for science
- Academic publishing today: what you need to know
- Academy of Science warns of ‘extreme crisis’ under Trump
- Daily Journal: Legal Experts Highlight Key IP Trends to Watch
- Guest Post — How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing
- How the open science movement tackles scientific misconduct
- It’s time to break the academic paywall
- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 1)
- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 2)
- The forgotten stakeholder – the reader
- Perceptions of Arab researchers regarding publishing scientific research: A cross-sectional study
- Quality in Diamond Open Access Publishing: guidelines, policies and templates
- The Dangers of Junk Science
- The future of academic publishing: Navigating Open Access and digital platforms, by Ruth Oji
- ‘The self-publishing world is shaking off its stigmas and evolving’—Read an excerpt from the African Small Publishers Catalogue
- When Scientists Don’t Correct Errors, Misinformation and Deadly Consequences Can Follow
- Why academic publishing is broken — and how researchers are fighting back
- Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves?
Webinars – 2025
- AI and Machine Learning in drug discovery: patenting AI-Generated inventions – 14 May 2025
- COMMUNIA Salon: Unfair licensing practices – 12 May 2025
- Copyright Protection of Chinese Traditional Culture – 20 May 2025
- Scholarly Horizons Webinars – For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com,
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