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IN THIS ISSUE
Copyright – South Africa
- Artists square off over royalty dispute
- Constitutional Court Clears Fair Use but Sends Copyright Education Rules Back to Parliament
- Constitutional Court rules fair use is constitutional
- Copyright Photographs
- Press Statement | The Constitutional Court confirms most of the Copyright Amendment Bill is constitutional (Section 27)
- The ConCourt’s final verdict on the Copyright Amendment Bill
- The copyright lessons behind a recent celebrity dispute
- #WomenOfUP: Constitutional Court cites UP Law’s Prof Chijioke Okorie in landmark copyright judgment
- Who really owns the copyright to your code?
Copyright – Globally
Copyright & AI
- Can Collective Management Presume Copyright in AI-Generated Music? Lessons from Brazil
- Centering Intellectual Property in Artificial Intelligence Strategies in Africa Through a Techno-legal Analysis
- From IP to AI (I): Africa and the Future of Knowledge Governance
- How to Copyright an AI-Generated Image? (US)
- Output V. Input- Copyright Ownership Challenges in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
- The Economic Importance of Flexible Copyright Regimes for Ai Training in APAC (Aug 2026)
- The grueling fight over who profits from AI music
- Scholarly Publications in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
- AI Can Find the Article. Can It Tell Which Version It Used?
- AI in Education Resources
- AI isn’t ready to research itself
- AI slop batters book publishing
- AI Use in The Scholarly Kitchen
- AI Watermarks Are Here and Copyright Law Is About to Get More Complicated
- Claude AI watermarking is not definitive evidence, say SA experts
- Why AI systems are most useful as designers of new scientific tools
- Expert Witness Caught Using AI to Write Report
- Offloading work tasks to AI comes with a cost – to our brains
- Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
- The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
- The cultural heritage sector makes the case for Public AI
- The Mirror and the Black Box: AI Metaphors and What They Mean for Learning
- The Published Voice: Whose Voice Are We Really Reading?
Libraries & Archives
- A feasibility study for a European Books Data Commons
- Ebooks Are Books. The Law Should Say So.
- How Libraries Can Teach Deepfake Evaluation
- Killing Me Quietly: Library Ebook Lending Is Not Killing the Book Market. Publisher Pricing Is Killing Library Budgets
- Libraries in the Age Of AI: Why Knowledge, Learning And Critical Thinking Still Matter
- Preserving the Record, Shaping the Future: Why Diversity Matters in Digital Preservation
- The Politics of Academic Libraries: Why Librarians Need a Seat at the Decision-Making Table
Open Access & Open Science
Research Integrity & Scholarly Communication
- A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars
- Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?
- Reading Between the Lines, Part 1: A Cognitive Framework for AI in Scholarly Publishing
- How is AI Changing Scholarly Publishing?
- How to Prove That Your Writing is Not AI
- Is Peer Review Modern-Day Slavery?
- New Guidance from COPE: An Interview with Natalie Ridgway
- Self-Citation Is How Fields Grow
- South Africa’s scientists must register with official body or risk prison, according to draft law
- The hidden cost of peer review: a system under strain
- 29 Invitations, 28 Declines: Is Peer Review Running Out of Goodwill?
- UNESCO Digital Platform Governance Toolkit
- Your Paper Was Published. Can the Journal Delete It?
Questionable/Predatory Practices in Scholarly Communication
Conferences/Workshops – 2026
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