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IN THIS ISSUE
Copyright – South Africa
- Constitutional Court hands down judgment on the Copyright Amendment Bill on 26 June 2026
- Constitutional Court Judgement on the Copyright Amendment Bill in South Africa: 26 June 2026 (Centre on Knowledge Governance)
- COSATU notes Constitutional Court ruling on the Copyright Amendment Bill and Performers’ Protection Bills
- Elections, expression, and intellectual property: Navigating South Africa’s 2026 electoral landscape
- Ex parte President of the Republic of South Africa: In re Constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill and the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill (CCT 306/24) [2026] ZACC 26
Copyright – Globally
- Bad Bunny lawsuit: Can you copyright a house?
- EIFL calls for EU-wide research exception, secondary publication right
- Europe’s next copyright reform moves a step closer to reality
- Japan passes copyright reform giving performers and record companies royalties
- Reconstructing the Author, Not Re-Privatising the Text
- 10 Takeaways from the Twin EU Consultations About the Landscape for Copyright Reform
Copyright & AI
- A Primer on the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act
- Compensating creators while unlocking AI training in Australia
- Dr. Philipp Mels, orka: The biggest battle in the 21st century will be AI versus Copyright
- How US courts are addressing fair use questions in AI training and copyright disputes
- Identity in the Age of Synthetic Doubles: Cyprus adopts new copyright provisions on deepfakes
- New Law Would Give Artists Sweeping Protections Against AI Stealing Their Work
- The Supreme Court Just Confirmed AI Images Can’t Be Owned
- Weighing up AI prompts with copyright law
- What Are an Artist’s Rights in the Age of A.I.?
- Yale researchers propose ‘copyleft’ rules for generative AI
Artificial Intelligence – General
- A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI
- A Hybrid Path: How India Might Balance AI Innovation and Creative Rights
- A new AI report is shocking – but not to the experts
- AI and the Future of Lies
- AI-Generated Deepfakes and U.S. Copyright Law
- AI Intelligence Is Not Consciousness
- AI Regulation Should Be Rational, Not Retaliatory
- AI Systems as Digital Public Goods
- An African perspective on AI
- Artificial Intelligence, Access to Justice, and the Future of Law
Misinformation/AI Hallucinations
- Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI Hallucinations
- Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler
- Nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake citations
- One Way to Tell If a Publisher Actually Has Distribution
- Publication fraud in the era of generative artificial intelligence
- Scientists warn fake research is spreading faster than real science
- Screaming into the void – Why your scientific paper doesn’t matter
- University of Free State drops AI detectors over accuracy concerns
- Universities spread data from fake ranking sites
Open Access & Research
- An open access future is only possible by addressing its problems
- Analysis reveals AI’s impact on research, journals
- Authors, reviewers and editors should not be left to endure AI anxiety alone
- Digital Science launches Dimensions Citation Check API
- NOODL – An experiment in equitable data licensing
- Responsible AI for Academic Libraries
- Steering open-source AI to accelerate the sustainable development goals
- The open access future cannot be a more expensive version of past
Research Integrity – Challenges & Deceptive Practices
- Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI Hallucinations
- Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler
- Nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake citations
- One Way to Tell If a Publisher Actually Has Distribution
- Publication fraud in the era of generative artificial intelligence
- Scientists warn fake research is spreading faster than real science
- Screaming into the void – Why your scientific paper doesn’t matter
- University of Free State drops AI detectors over accuracy concerns
Libraries & Archives (incl. AI)
- Archiving with AI
- Can I Borrow Your E-Book?: A Brief Discussion of Controlled Digital Lending
- Leveraging Technology, Copyright, and Libraries to Benefit the Public Interest
- University Libraries are Essential in the Age of AI
- Why Libraries Matter Now More Than Ever to Democracy
- Why research impact needs libraries more than ever
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