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IN THIS ISSUE
Copyright – South Africa
- America tried to interfere in South African copyright law (2026)
- Constitutional Court clears path for copyright reform (YouTube)
- Constitutional Court Post-Judgment Media Summary on Copyright Bill
- Copyright Amendment Bill: Constitutional Court Clarifies the Future of South Africa’s Copyright Reform
- How the US and EU pressured South Africa to delay copyright reform (2020)
- Long walk to copyright reform #12: The Constitutional Court clarifies the constitutional anatomy of South Africa’s copyright exceptions
- Press Statement: The Constitutional Court confirms most of the Copyright Amendment Bill is constitutional (Section27)
- Sign the Copyright Bill: Protect musicians from exploitative collecting societies
- The ConCourt’s final verdict on the Copyright Amendment Bill
- Who owns the video, music, and writing created with AI in South Africa
Copyright – Globally
- Barriers to Research: Insights into the Patchwork of Research Exceptions in European Copyright Laws and Practical Perspectives
- Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Research Libraries, AI Research and Contract Override
- Delhi University Photocopy Case: Copyright, Fair Dealing, and Access to Education (2025)
- Documentary About Freeing Happy Birthday From Copyfraud Comes Out the Day After Happy Birthday Officially Declared Public Domain
- ECJ on the Meaning and Limits of Pastiche in Copyright Law
- Fair Use in Copyright Law
- High Court rules social media posts are protected by copyright (Uganda)
- Misleading Claims about the Secondary Publication Right
- Summary of User Rights Network Symposium: Protecting Copyright User Rights from Contractual Override (2024)
- The pastiche exception in copyright law: what recent cases mean for creators and for AI (EU)
- The Thin Line of Copyright: Why Some Valuable Works Receive Only Limited Protection
- Using Photos on Social Media Sites Without Permission Can Cause Legal Headaches
- WIPO: Developing countries call for text-based negotiations on copyright exceptions and limitations
Copyright & AI
- AI firms are shredding physical books because copyright law is quietly rewarding them
- AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
- ChatGPT has quietly stopped writing like your favourite author
- High Court of Delhi: AI training found to be fair use (2026)
- In Kampala Studios, AI Speeds Ugandan Music Production – But ‘Soul’ and Copyright Questions Grow Louder
- Is training AI on copyrighted materials protected by the First Amendment? (US)
- Judge Rejects Google’s Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
- What are the copyright challenges of AI training? (Council of Europe)
- The Protection of Human Voice in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence
- Africa AI Governance Index Report
- AI Act (EU)
- AI has intelligence. It doesn’t have intellect
- AI models’ breakout from human control brings a told-you-so moment for technology researchers
- AI Resources (Scholarly Horizons)
- Beyond fairness: Why justice should guide Africa’s AI future
- Beyond One Definition of AI Literacy: What Universities Can Learn from the UNESCO, EU, and Stanford Frameworks
- Coalition launched to advance children’s rights in the age of artificial intelligence (UNICEF)
- Could AI create a new form of inequality in South Africa?
- Open-Source AI vs. Closed AI: Which Future Serves Developing Nations?
- Reimagining Artificial Intelligence and Human Development
- The true danger of AI may lie in its reflection of us, warns Anna Goldsworthy
- Twenty-nine countries sign agreement to establish global AI cooperation body
- What do LLMs say about development in the Global South?
- What is open-source AI? A software engineering researcher explains
- When AI Decides Your Rights, You Deserve an Answer: Introducing LETSAPA (South Africa)
- Why AI is sampling – and how that will affect the future
- WIPO – Developing and protecting AI systems
Libraries & Archives
Open Access & Open Science
Research Integrity & Scholarly Communication
- Academic (Mis)Use of AI
- AI Adoption Without Work Redesign Is Theatre
- AI in Class: Time to Rethink Assignments
- AI value comes from rewiring workflows, not adopting tools
- How Bangladesh Is Reducing the North-South Divide in Scholarly Publishing
- Journals Move to Address Concerns About Peer Reviewers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence
- Research Needs a Shared Standard for AI Disclosure
- SA universities move beyond AI detection tools
- Social Media in Scholarly Communications — SSP Pulse Check Report
- Scholarly communication as a collective responsibility
- Supporting FAIR Practices in Scholarly Publishing with the Editorial Reference Handbook
- The AI Challenge Isn’t Adoption. It’s Work Redesign
- The case for researchers publishing less in the age of AI
- The Emotional Rollercoaster of Scholarly Publishing
- The Hidden Cost of Trust
- What university leaders must learn in the age of AI
- When a journal falls off the education department list, academics shouldn’t pay the price
Questionable/Predatory Practices in Scholarly Communication
- Broken citation or academic misconduct? How to spot the difference
- Citation Pollution in Scholarly Communication
- Cloned journals signal the rise of academic cybercrime
- Fabricated citations in the age of AI: A wake-up call for editors, reviewers, and authors (2025)
- Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty
- Predatory Publishing Practices and Fake Conferences
- Questionable Citation and Collusion Practices
Conferences/Workshops – 2026
- IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2026 – 10-13 August 2026, Busan, Republic of Korea
- Launch of the DAISY Regional Network for Africa – 28 September 2026, Emperor’s Palace Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
- LIASA Annual Conference – 5-9 October 2026, Sandton Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Webinars / Workshops – Scholarly Horizons
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