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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 and Artificial Intelligence in South Africa: Rethinking Authorship and Originality in the Digital Age
- Social Media Posts and Memes: A South African Perspective on the Intersection of Copyright Law, Internet Use and Privacy (2023)
- South Africa’s copyright revolution: New protections for digital creators
Copyright – Globally
- Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional Scrutiny
- Fair Use in the U.S. Economy – 2025 Edition Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use.
- From Copyright to Contract: How User Rights Are Being Reshaped
- Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered by WIPO – Second edition
- IP and Data Rights In Africa’s Digital Economy: A Protective–Adaptive Blueprint
- Why much of Canada’s national art collection isn’t online
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI, copyright and the creative industries
- Attribution & AI Outputs
- Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
- Copyright, AI, and the Limits of Voluntary Licensing: Analysis
- Copyright & AI in the UK: The Debate Rolls On
- EU: Report on copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges
- Global Atlas of Copyright Exceptions for AI and Machine Learning
- Is authorship inherently anthropocentric? Thaler, human authorship and the contracts quietly filling the gap
- Open-ended debate
- Parliament adopts INI report on AI and copyright: No clear path forward
- Reference giants launch copyright fight against OpenAI
- State of intellectual property governance of artificial intelligence in Africa Report
- This Bill Would Force AI Companies to Disclose Copyrighted Works
- UK: Policy paper: Report and impact assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
- UK Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence published
- UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI
- WIPO: Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (AIII)
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- AI and memory
- AI and the PhD student: friend or foe?
- AI Governance Takes Shape: Breaking Down Washington’s Latest AI Frameworks
- Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Ethics, and Digital Inequality: A Bibliometric Mapping in the Digital Media Era
- Business Talk – Prof Vukosi Marivate on building AI in Africa and shaping global governance (video)
- Educators’ perceptions and willingness to integrate Generative Artificial Intelligence in teaching and research: evidence from Kenyan higher education
- Decolonizing the Digital Classroom: A Critical Analysis of Power, Privilege, and Algorithmic Bias in AI-Mediated Learning Environments
- Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Professional Structures for the Predictive Age
- Leadership in the AI era
- Opt In or Opt Out: The AI Copyright Dilemma
- Regulating Artificial Intelligence Across Borders
- The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought
- The intelligence illusion: why AI isn’t as smart as it is made out to be
- Trump Administration Releases National Policy Framework on Artificial Intelligence
- UNESCO: Lao P.D.R.: artificial intelligence readiness assessment report
- You Don’t Need an AI Policy
Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication
- Artificial intelligence tools in scholarly publishing: guidance for peer reviewers
- Attribution & AI Outputs
- Do’s, Don’ts and Don’t Knows – Responding to AI in assessment in Universities: A Practical Guide
- From Human Content to Machine Data – Introducing CC Signals
- Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do
- Guest Post — Could AI Help Fix Peer Review, or Will it Only Make Things Worse?
- Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective
- Hits and misses: South Africa’s participation in WSIS+20
- How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation
- ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
- OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 – Exploring Effective Uses of Generative AI in Education
- Open and Distance Learning Research Trends in Higher Education: A systematic literature review of research in the Commonwealth from 2015 to 2024
- Research integrity in the age of open access and AI: The view from France
- Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
- STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI
- Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI
- Universities must clarify conceptual confusion around AI
- Who owns digital data about you? South African legal scholar weighs up property and privacy rights
- With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page?
Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)
- Algorithms, Archives, and the Layers We Usually Forget
- CC Hosts Open Heritage Statement Event in Amsterdam
- Copyright and Libraries in the Age of Generative AI: Evolving Roles, Emerging Risks, and Practical Strategies
- Ensuring Equitable Access to Heritage: The Need for an International Standard under the Auspices of UNESCO
- Guest Post — AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries
- Guest Post — Gen Z and Academic Libraries: Reading, but Differently
Retractions, Fraud, and Predatory Publishing Practices
- Co-authorship fraud: An academic scandal in plain sight
- Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal
- Paper Mills – For sale: scientific reputation
- Scientists warn fake research is spreading faster than real science
WIPO SCCR Events – 2026
- Webinar with expert commentary on the African Group proposal on Limitations & Exceptions – 9 April 2026.
- Public Lecture & Cocktail with Prof. Maggie Chon (Hybrid) – 18 May 2026
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