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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – The Constitutional Court has not made its decision known as yet.
Copyright – Globally
- Could copyright now be used to gag advocacy groups and media reporting?
- Legal ink: an overview of copyright law and tattoos
- Making the case for the right copyright
- Questions on the Limits of Fair Use in Academic Research Raised by the Sci-Hub Case
- The New Gold Rush: Text and Data Mining Exemptions to Copyright Protection Around the World
- What would a text and data mining copyright exception mean for the arts?
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- A first look into the JURI draft report on copyright and AI
- AI, Copyright, and the Future of Creativity: Notes from the Panama International Book Fair
- AI Copyrighted Training Data Usage Explained by a Lawyer : Fair Use or Exploitation?
- AI and copyright: Unisa leads dialogue on creativity, ethics, and law
- Anthropic Settles the Authors’ Class Action on Training Data: What It Means for Fair Use, Compensation, and Competition
- Artificial Intellectual Property
- COMMUNIA’s submission to the Danish consultation on the proposal for introducing protection against digitally generated imitations in copyright law
- Copyright Re-Alignment: The Growth of New Works Outside the Copyright System
- European Parliament – Draft Report on Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges – 2025/2058(INI)
- EU-commissioned study on generative AI and copyright suggests overturning the current opt-out approach that ‘effectively treats silence as consent’
- Fair Use or Infringement? Recent Court Rulings on AI Trained on Copyrighted Works
- Generative AI vs. Copyright: The Fair Use Debate
- Latest Developments on Training GenAI with Copyrighted Works and Some ‘What Ifs?’
- New policy paper against new exclusive rights for AI-generated outputs
- The AI-Copyright Trap
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- AI Disrupting Law
- AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices
- Artificial Intelligence and the Next Great Transformation
- Can you copyright artwork made using AI?
- From Detection to Disclosure — Key Takeaways on AI Ethics from COPE’s Forum
- I Used ChatGPT’s Deep Research Tool For Academic Research. Here’s What I Learned
- Simple Checklists to Verify the Accuracy of AI‑Generated Research Summaries
- The AI Bubble: Why 95% of GenAI Projects Are Failing
- The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst
- Training AI Models? Here’s What You Need to Know About Copyright Risks
- Turnitin Launches Anti-AI Humanizer Feature
- What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks
Open Access, A2K, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- AI is Not Democratizing Writing
- Banning Sci-Hub is banning access: Why knowledge belongs to the world
- Can We Still Trust Scientific Studies?
- Creative Commons Becomes an Official UNESCO NGO Partner
- Denmark scraps book tax to fight ‘reading crisis’ –
- Diversity of peer reviewers counters unfairness – Study
- Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention
- National peer review weighs up quality of education journals
- Peer reviewers like papers that cite them
- STEM subjects need to be decolonised for greater DEI
- The Digitisation of Audiovisual Assets Salvaged from the Jagger Library Fire: A Practical Overview
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- Estimating the predictability of questionable open-access journals
- False authorship: an explorative case study around an AI-generated article published under my name
- RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no
- Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed
- Hijacked medical journals rank first via search engine optimization and threaten academic integrity
- How Bad Science Is Becoming Big Business
- How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news
- Science’s Credibility Crisis: Publish or Perish Culture
- Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up with Flood of Fake Papers
- Why Academia Needs a Forensic Lens
Courses/Webinars/Workshops
AI and Research webinars/workshops – For more information, please email Dr. K. Krauss at kirstin.krauss@wwis.co.za
Webinars/workhop on various topics, including Copyright, plagiarism, scholarly communication, open access, deceptive publishing practices, POPIA, etc. – For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com
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