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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
- Copyright Laws and Regulations South Africa – 2026 (iclg)
- Mapping Moral Rights: An Analysis of What We Do Not Know About Section 20 of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 (not OA)
Copyright – Globally
- As the Calendar Turned Its Page, New Works Entered the Public Domain
- Balancing innovation with fairness: What transparency in AI means for copyright law
- Copyright Kills Competition
- Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly
- Embedded Videos — Fair Use or Infringement? What the Latest Court Decision Means for Publishers
- Fair Use Is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
- From Exception to Expectation: Advancing Accessible Content in Canada
- In landmark termination rights ruling, Appeals Court says songwriters can reclaim global copyrights under US law
- Looking for a Home for the Secondary Publication Right: Lessons from National Legal Frameworks
- Public Domain Day 2026: Duration of Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works in the UK
- Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship
- 2026 in public domain
- WIPO Toolkit on Access to Copyrighted Works in the Collections of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Libraries, Archives and Museums
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI Clones and Copyrights: What Creators Need to Know in 2026
- Copyright in the Age of AI: A Turning Point for Copyright Law
- Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
- Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will
- Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward
- INI on copyright and generative AI: Final assessment and recommendation (COMMUNIA)
- Search Engines, AI, and the Long Fight over Fair Use
- The Ethics of AI Generated Music
- Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- AI as Normal Technology
- AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research
- AI isn’t conscious—but we may be bringing it to life
- AI laws of the world
- AI’s benefits need to be distributed across all disciplines
- AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
- Anticircumvention Law is Not the Right Solution to Webscraping
- Guest Post — AI Use: From Policies to Reality
- Guest Post — The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool
- Harnessing artificial intelligence for social good (Unicef)
- How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian
- Is AI dulling our minds?
- NWU becomes first South African university with official AI policy
- Productivity Commission releases final report into Harnessing Data and Digital Technologies (Australia)
- Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
- The Paradox of AI Assistance: Better Results, Worse Thinking
- Wikipedia owner signs on Microsoft, Meta in AI content training deals
Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication
- Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility
- From model collapse to citation collapse: risks of over-reliance on AI in the academy
- Guest Post — Open Scholarship is Poised to Create More Value than Ever, but Are We Ready?
- Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn
- JSTOR announces first 100 Path to Open books now fully open access
- Open Access in South Africa (2024)
- Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details
- Open Access Policies and Mandates Around the World
- Read and Publish Agreements negotiated by SANLIC
- Researchers must have right to stop papers becoming AI fodder
- Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers
- Safeguarding Scholarly Communication – Publisher Practices to Uphold Research Integrity
- To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition
- “What Are We Really Assessing?” Rethinking Evidence of Learning in the Age of AI
- Why scholarly publishing needs a neutral governance body for the AI age
Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)
- Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities
- Safeguarding Libraries and their Users Against Unfair Contract Terms
- The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy
- Twenty years of eBooks: How libraries turned a quiet shift into a global revolution in digital access
- Use of artificial intelligence technologies in rendering library services: empirical evidence from university libraries in Africa
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- How AI Makes Predatory Journals More Dangerous (2025)
- Sage journal retracts more than 40 papers over concerns with peer review, author contributions
- Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
- When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes
Scholarly Horizons Webinars/Workshops – 2026
- New year – new horizons! Are you interested in learning more about copyright, plagiarism, citation and improving writing skills, scholarly communication, open access, deceptive practices, POPIA for institutions, library issues relating to copyright, AI, digitisation, etc.?
- For more information, or to arrange a webinar, please contact Denise Nicholson, at Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com, or see Webinars / Workshops – Scholarly Horizons
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