(Source: Nick Youngson – https://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/legal08/c/copyright-law.html)
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)
Copyright – Globally
- Copyright Kills Competition
- Should YouTube Take Down Copyrighted Videos? Not Fair Use Videos
- The Copyright Conversation
- The Public Domain Shakedown: Paying for Rights No One Owns
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI’s billions won’t land here without copyright reform
- AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget
- AI Trends for 2026 – Copyright Litigation Shifts from Training Data to AI Outputs
- Copyright and AI Policy Needs Precision, Not Panic
- Experts Appointed to Oversee AI Copyright Lawsuits
- Reasonable Intelligence: How Should Platforms Be Held Accountable For AI-Assisted Copyright Infringement?
- Sony unveils AI tool aimed at detecting use of copyrighted works
- Text and Data Mining, Generative AI, and the Copyright Three-Step Test
- The Great Copyright Unraveling: How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewriting Intellectual Property Law Faster Than Courts Can Respond
- The world changed with a click: copyright in the age of AI
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
- An overview of AI ethics: moral concerns through the lens of principles, lived realities and power structures
- ‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report
- From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens
- In the hands of innovators from the Global South, AI can transform lives
- Knowledgespeak Editorial – After AI Disclosure Comes Clarity: Why Classification Will Define the Future of Research Publishing
- Moving Beyond the Term “Global South” in AI Ethics and Policy
- Opinion: Is Artificial Intelligence a helpful tool or the cause of our downfall?
- Professors say fears of artificial intelligence long predate ChatGPT
- Researchers Discover AI Language Models Are Mirroring the Human Brain’s Understanding of Speech
- The artificial intelligence revolution (video)
- When AI outpaces understanding: HE must reclaim authority
Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication
- AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
- ASSAf Marks 30 years of Advancing Science for Public Good
- Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training
- Crisis in Peer Review: Academic Publishing’s Struggle for Integrity
- Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes
- Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR
- No-fee OA publishing in Africa policy brief and funding sources overview
- Open Access as a Launchpad: Educational Pathways in Early-Career Scientific Publishing
- Open Data Practices of Art – Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment
- Overhauling the knowledge economy: What can be done?
- Pedagogies in the age of AI: How to secure credible learning
- Do’s, Don’ts and Don’t – Knows Responding to AI in assessment in Universities: A Practical Guide for Lecturers
- Safeguarding the art of lecturing in an AI age
- Should New Regulations be Imposed on Academic Publishing?
- The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it
- Unlocking the repository: A strategy for increasing the uptake of green open access
- Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It (Pt.1)
- Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It (Pt.2)
Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)
- Books and screens
- IFLA AI Entry Point for Libraries and AI
- Kenya: The accidental librarian keeping Kibera’s kids in books
- Safeguarding Libraries and their Users Against Unfair Contract Terms
- The 5th Freedom: Stephen Wyber (Knowledge Rights 21 & IFLA) (YouTube)
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals
- Aletheia-Probe: A Tool for Automated Journal Assessment
- New Tool Reveals the Vast Spread of Fraudulent Research Impacting Cancer Science
- Predatory journals and the quiet crisis facing academics
- The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now has 400 entries
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