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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- News about the Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017
The hearing of the CAB in the Constitutional Court was on 21 and 22 May 2025. A decision is awaited in due course.
- Concourt hands victory to blind people after Ramaphosa’s failure to sign copyright act
- ReCreate’s Amicus Submission to the Constitutional Court in South Africa, May 2025
- ReCreate SA – Resources on SA Copyright Amendment Bill –
- Scholarly Horizons – Resources on SA Copyright Amendment Bill
- The South African Copyright Amendment Bill at the Constitutional Court: Notes from the Presidential Referral of the Bill (Part I)
- The South African Copyright Amendment Bill at the Constitutional Court: Notes from the Presidential Referral of the Bill (Part II)
Copyright – Globally
- A Peek Behind the Scenes of Supreme Court Decision Making Concerning the Federal IP System
- Copyright in Characters: A Proposal for Reform
- Copyright Law in the Age of AI: Navigating Authorship, Infringement, and Creative Rights
- Cross-border Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright: “Powered by AI”
- Crunch Time for UK Copyright
- Fair Use Isn’t Optional: Judges Can Help Reclaim It for Creators
- (Indian) Govt sets up panel on AI and Copyright; DNPA backs fair use push
- Raising awareness on copyright for cultural heritage, education and research institutions
- Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Reopen ‘Thinking Out Loud’ Copyright Lawsuit Against Ed Sheeran
- The Distinct Concepts of Copyright and Right of Publicity in Photos
- WTO: Brazil, India and Peru call for the inclusion of a mandatory disclosure requirement in the WTO TRIPS Agreement
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (incl. Copyright)
- AI and Copyright: Navigating the Legal Maze with Liz Rothman | Knobbe Martens
- AI copyright anxiety will hold back creativity
- Are AI Bots Knocking Digital Collections Offline? An Interview with Michael Weinberg
- Copyright, AI Training, and Innovation
- Copyright and Generative AI
- Copyright Crackdown: Is Your AI Model Breaking the Law?
- Creator v AI Content Copyright: What You Should Know
- Empowering skill development through generative AI: bridging gaps for a sustainable future
- Encountered a problematic response from an AI model? More standards and tests are needed, say researchers
- EUIPO’s study on GenAI and copyright
- Explainer: AI and Copyright—Can Works Created Solely by AI Be Copyrighted?
- Generative AI Copyright Report from U.S. Office Revealed
- Interrogating Assessment in the Age of Generative AI
- MIT Looks at How AI Agents Can Learn to Reason Like Humans
- OECD Artificial Intelligence Papers
- Pope Leo warns of potential AI risks
- The future of artificial intelligence: Where will the latest innovations take us?
- We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report
- What happens when you use ChatGPT to write an essay? See what new study found.
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- Weekend reads: Nobel Prize winners and retractions; Nature to publish peer reviews automatically; ‘AI or Die’?
- When PubMed got it right, Elsevier got it wrong, and Retraction Watch helped clear it up
Open Access, A2K, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- Editing in the Age of Misinformation: A Report on the 2025 EASE Conference
- Evolving to protect the integrity of the scholarly record
- How to Use Images Legally with Creative Commons (CC) Licenses, Copyright Insights, and Best Practices
- OJS: Best Practices and Use Cases
- Turning academic publishing’s accessibility problem into an inclusion opportunity
- 2025 State of Open Infrastructure Report
- UNCST adopts an open science policy
Webinars – 2025
- Understanding copyright – Webinar for research and innovation – Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at 10am CET
- Register here: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/understanding-copyright-webinar-research-and-innovation
- Scholarly Horizons Webinars – For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com
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