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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Books, language and knowledge ownership: Why publishing and copyright matter in South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
Copyright – Globally
- Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People from Reading and Speaking the Law
- CC’s position on key copyright issues
- Copyright In the Age of Digitization: Who Is Responsible For Publishing Copyrighted Content on Video Sharing Platforms?
- Copyright News—European Court of Justice: A ‘pastiche’ is a not a catch-all for any sort of music sampling, (Apr 20, 2026)
- Fair Use in the U.S. Economy – 2025 Edition
- Futility of copyright in the Internet era
- Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered
- by WIPO (2nd ed)
- Is the African Group Proposal on L&Es Consistent with EU Law?
- New White Paper on Institutional Copyright Policies and Article Versions
- New WIPO Guide Casts Doubt on Open General Exceptions
- Report on a roundtable on music, generative AI, and copyright at the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law
- Steal like an artist? What copyright law actually allows
- UK Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Mar 2026)
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI and Copyright: Government adopts wait and see approach (UK)
- Can AI-generated content infringe pre-existing copyright works?
- Copyright owners v AI developers: the emerging trends
- How African creators are currently being exploited in the AI boom
- Human Authorship Is Still Central To Copyright Eligibility
- Is Copyright Law the Wrong Weapon Against AI? 5 Questions
- The AI Dilemma: Copyright, Incentives, and the Future of Creativity
- The Character Without an Author: Character Copyright Protection in the Age of Generative AI
- Training AI on copyrighted content is not infringing, says Trump administration
- Training AI on Copyrighted Works: Comparative Legal Frameworks
- Whose AI Is It Anyway? Key Developments in the Evolving Relationship Between AI and IP
- Who Owns the Rights to AI-Generated Images? A Straightforward Guide to Copyright Law
- Who Wrote This? Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence – Africa
- Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence 8 April 2025
- African Observatory on Responsible Artificial Intelligence
- African Union – Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024
- AI In Africa – Key Concerns and Policy Considerations for the Future of The Continent (2022)
- How can we best use AI in African public policy?
- Knowledge Governance and Just AI – Cradle Report
- Leveraging artificial intelligence for public policy-making in Africa: Policy recommendations – 2024
- Malatsi withdraws SA’s draft national AI policy
Artificial Intelligence – General
- A fragmented landscape: Bridging the copyright gap in Africa
- A Modern AI Risk Management Framework
- Advancing Responsible AI Adoption and Use in the Public Sector: Three Policy Priorities for State Legislation
- Africa must help shape global AI governance, expert says
- AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It.
- AI Without Canada: Why the Heritage Committee’s AI Report Could Lead to Less Canadian Content in the Training Data
- Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
- Artificial intelligence and education in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
- Fact Check Team: Exploring the evolution of artificial intelligence regulations
- Measuring Usage in the Age of AI
- New Government Policy Shows Japan Favors a Light Touch for AI Regulation
- Penalties stack up as AI spreads through the legal system
- Republic of Ghana National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (2025-2035)
- The European approach to artificial intelligence policymaking
- “The foundations of AI systems are flaky”
- The 2026 AI Index Report (Stanford University)
- Three ways artificial intelligence (AI) is putting gender equality at risk.
- ‘Too Dangerous to Release’ Is Becoming AI’s New Normal
- ‘We need to dismantle the myths’ surrounding AI in education
- We need to talk about failure in science
- What AI-authored Books Mean for the Publishing Industry
- What Claude and OpenClaw Vulnerabilities Reveal About AI Agents
- Where AI Gets Its Info From? The Top Sources in 205 and What They Mean for Business
- Who in universities owns the time saved in the AI era?
Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication
- Basic Education commemorates World Book and Copyright Day, 23 Apr
- Beyond journals: Unlocking a new currency for scholarship
- Citation self-awareness for a fairer academic publishing landscape
- Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter
- F1000 extends Open Research Africa platform to all authors in Africa
- Guest Post — Diamond Open Access: A Lifeline for the Monograph?
- How open source ideals must expand for AI
- It’s a jungle out there: Where do South African universities stand on AI?
- It’s time for academics to take community action on AI
- Open Access Policy (Australia)
- Open Source, After Mythos
- Peer review in the time of artificial intelligence
- Perceptions of fairness and bias in the scholarly publishing ecosystem: Insights from a new report
- Safeguarding research in a changing global landscape
- So much research is already free to read in Australia – but it’s not getting the support it needs
- South Africa and Australia advance National Open Science Policies
- South Africa moves to punish scientists acting ‘improperly’ – Call for Comments: SA Natural Scientific Professions Draft Bill (by 15 May 2026)
- South African Open Science Policy (2026)
- Update on CC Signals: What Changed and Why
- What 6,000 researchers think about the future of science
- What Publishing Leaders Say About AI When They’re Not on Panels: A Pulse on All Things AI
Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)
- Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities
- AI in Libraries: What It Means Today and How to Get Started
- Library & AI: Why Libraries Still Matter in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- March 2026 issue of IFLA Journal [Special Issue: Indigenous Knowledge]
- South Africa celebrates World Book Day with calls for action to promote reading
Research Integrity – Challenges & Deceptive Practices
- Academic Publishing’s Hidden Tax: Why Kenyan Universities Pay Twice
- Adopting a united front against paper mills
- Editorial: Facts are in crisis. What are we going to do?
- Fake Authors, Real Citations: Scientists Discovered a Preprint Plagiarism Network
- Governance mismatch threatens academic integrity in era of generative AI
- Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
- If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
- Opinion: Scientific Journals Need Dedicated Fact-Checkers
- Potholes in the academy: Navigating toxic academic practices in South Africa
- Predatory university rankings jeopardise the value of Webometrics
- US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices
Workshops/Webinars – 2026
Online Events – 2026
- ASSAF AI Lekgotla: Don’t talk to me, talk to my agent: Academics and the Agentic Revolution – 20 May 2026
- IFLA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence 2026 – Theme: “Building an AI-Empowered World: Practical Applications of AI” – 9-13 Nov 2026
- IFLA Webinar – Transforming Library workflows through AI agents – 15 May 2026
- LIASA – Digital preservation and archiving best practices – 21 May 2026
- LIASA – Understanding the Use of AI in Libraries – A Practical Workshop – 7 May 2026
- WIPO SCCR Public Lecture & Cocktail with Prof. Maggie Chon (Hybrid) – 18 May 2026
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