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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017. Awaiting ruling on constitutionality from the Constitutional Court of South Africa – currently set down for 19 and 20 March 2025
- Bridging the gap: How copyright reform could transform access to education for all learners
- Copyright and the Public Interest (blog)
- South Africa: Education unions call for copyright reform to protect learning
- The right copyright for African libraries
Copyright – Globally
- Advocacy on the World Stage with IFLA’s Stephen Wyber (Podcast 2024)
- Is your country maximising access? Marrakesh Monitoring Report 2025
- Revised WIPO guide to collective management available
- Survey on Technological Protection Measures: Impacts for researchers, libraries and archives
- Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.
- Technological Protection Measures and Digital Preservation: Evidence from Video Games
- Technological Protection Measures and the Law: Impacts on Research, Education & Preservation
Traditional Knowledge
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (incl. Copyright)
- AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
- AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
- AI-Generated Research Takes Over Google Scholar: Is Science World Being Flooded with Fake Studies?
- ANI vs OpenAI: India’s copyright act is outdated. Can it deal with new legal conundrums?
- Can AI create high-quality, publishable research articles?
- Could an Alliance of News Organizations Build an LLM for Journalism?
- Does AI get a free pass on ‘fair use’ IP rights?
- Economic arguments in favour of reducing copyright protection for generative AI inputs and outputs
- Fakes made easy: Generative AI and the copyright conundrum
- Generative AI in Focus: Copyright Office’s Latest Report
- Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) usage guidelines for scholarly publishing: a cross-sectional study of medical journals
- Integrating artificial intelligence-based technologies ‘safely’ in academic libraries: An overview through a scoping review
- Intellectual property issues in artificial intelligence trained on scraped data
- New Copyright Ruling Just Made AI Skills The Biggest Advantage
- Recovering Personality in Copyright’s Originality Inquiry
- Responsible use of artificial intelligence in government
- Should AI movies be considered art, be eligible for copyright protection?
- Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet.
- The Future of Knowledge: AI as a Living Publication and the Evolution of Research Dissemination
- Thomson Reuters v. Ross: The First AI Fair Use Ruling Fails to Persuade
- US Copyright Office Publishes Second Part of Report on AI Copyrightability — AI: The Washington Report
- What’s going on with AI copyright authorship?
- [Whitepaper] Generative AI in Higher Education: Current Practices and Ways Forward
- Writers vs. AI: Microsoft Study Reveals How GPT-4 Impacts Creativity and Voice
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- As Springer Nature journal clears AI papers, one university’s retractions rise drastically
- Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
- Predatory Journals — What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?
- Questioning the Predator of the Predatory Journals: How Fair Are Global Publishing Standards?
- Weekend reads: ‘Invasion of the journal snatchers;’ our paper mill investigation; highly cited, highly retracted
Open Access, A2K, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- A call for broadening the altmetrics tent to democratize science outreach
- A framework for the Learning and Teaching of Critical AI Literacy skills
- Best Practice for Publishers of Scholarly Books and Conference Proceedings
- Challenges with measures used for assessing research impact in higher education institutions
- End of big deals is a chance to build a better publishing system
- IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons: Refugees | Migrants | Immigrants | Asylum seekers
- Landscape of no-fee open access publishing in Africa (EIFL)
- Open access to information on African restitution
- Preserving the vanishing voices
- Report: cheaper ebooks for libraries could “revolutionise the promotion of reading”
- Repository best practices (EIFL)
- Revisiting: Measuring Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric
- Small Is Sexy: Rethinking Article Length in the Age of AI
- Study tracks limited impact of transformative OA contracts
- Supporting learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers to transition to open access book publishing (SPA OPS 4.0 project)
- Telling the Story of How Open Access Benefits Society: A Vision for the Future
- The misalignment of incentives in academic publishing and implications for journal reform
- Trump leaves South African universities reeling
- Video Game History Foundation launches digital archive
- Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements?
Conference Alerts – 2025
Webinars – 2025
Scholarly Horizons Webinars (For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com, or complete form at https://scholarlyhorizons.co.za/webinars-workshops/
- A – “Unmasking Deception: Promoting Integrity in Scholarly Communication”
- B – “Beyond Words: Upholding Research Integrity with Honest Writing”
- C – “POPI Act Demystified: Safeguarding Privacy in the Digital Age”
- D – Webinars/workshops that can be tailored to your needs.
- Topics :- Include copyright, plagiarism, improving writing skills, publishing, deceptive publishing practices, use of Gen AI in a learning, study and research environment, OA, library issues, and others
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