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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 has been moved to 21 and 22 May 2025.
Copyright – Globally
- Fair Use, Censorship, and Struggle for Control of Facts
- GAVA Executive Committee Meets with WIPO to Strengthen Cooperation on Actors’ Rights
- Interactive Entertainment Law Review – Copyright
- The Freedom to Extract in Copyright Law
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (incl. Copyright)
- AI-detection software isn’t the solution to classroom cheating — assessment has to shift
- AI detectors in universities: Time to turn them off and embrace AI for enhanced learning
- AI ‘hallucinations’ in court papers spell trouble for lawyers
- AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
- Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence
- Canada, other countries struggling to come up with new rules for AI and copyright
- ChatGPT for students: learners find creative new uses for chatbots
- Copyright and AI: Response by the CREATe Centre to the UK Government’s Consultation
- Court Rules AI Training On Copyrighted Works Is Not Fair Use — What It Means For Generative AI
- Embracing AI, copyright intact
- EU AI Code of Practice leaves “significant” copyright uncertainties
- How AI can achieve human-level intelligence: researchers call for change in tack
- I want to ensure that Africans take part in the AI revolution
- Is AI replacing creative work? New study finds complexity and continuities
- Issue 109: Generative AI in Libraries
- Opinion by the European Copyright Society on Generative AI
- The AI Licensing Economy
- The end of the student essay? Reasoning AIs are starting to cross into pass territory
- ‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
- Trustworthy AI: African Perspectives (OA book)
- Turnitin launches Turnitin Clarity, bringing transparency and integrity insights to education
- U.S. Copyright Office Panel Kicks the Tires on Potential Licensing Models for AI Training
- We Could Use a Model Licensing Framework for Scholarly Content Use in AI Tools
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- Fake journal publications: Silent fraud in university systems costing billions to taxpayers
- Open repositories cannot ignore retractions and corrections
- ‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research
Open Access, A2K, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?
- Interoperable Ebooks Standards Statement
- Knowledge and Global Inequality (South Centre)
- MDPI expands partnership with ResearchGate to include 200 scholarly journals, boosting open access visibility
- Navigating Research Data and Software: A Practical Guide for PhD Supervisors
- Open access and peer review – why do I have to pay twice?
- Opinion: When I use a word . . . Academic publishing: the impact factor
- ParliMeter – Parliamentary Oversight Tool (South Africa)
- The misalignment of incentives in academic publishing and implications for journal reform
- The Right to Read Without Being Read
- The ‘Wayback Machine’ is preserving the websites Trump’s White House took down
- Tools and resources for Diamond OA publishers
- Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
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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