Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – ConCourt hearings were on 21/22 May 2025. Ruling still awaited one year later.
- Music Royalties in South Africa and Who Gets Paid Under Copyright Law
- Training AI with copyrighted books ruled ‘fair use’ in US: Implications for SA
Copyright – Globally
- Can a rhythm be owned? What a reggaeton lawsuit reveals about how copyright misunderstands music
- Can you own a voice? Taylor Swift’s latest legal move raises big questions for AI and copyright (trademark)
- Canada: Copyright year in review – 2025-2026 – final version
- Copyright in AI Prompts: Chinese Court Ruling on Generative AI and Originality
- Starting from slogan, copyright protection demands multiple-pronged approach
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI, Copyright, and the Future of Creativity
- Malatsi moves to rescue South Africa’s botched AI policy
- The Global Evolution of AI Fact-Checking: Copyright and Research Gaps
- The pastiche exception in copyright law: what recent cases mean for creators and for AI
- Three copyright rulings and an EU deadline have rewritten the rules for AI images
- US Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence – General
- Artificial intelligence and uncertainty
- Ban for Authors Submitting AI Content ‘Welcome but Unenforceable’
- Cybersecurity Will Swallow Digital Policy in the AI Age
- Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
- Glossary of artificial intelligence (Wikipedia)
- Instant AI answers can trivialise human intelligence, warns Royal Observatory
- Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’
- Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions?
- Living guidelines on the responsible use of generative AI in research
- On Memorization
- Pope approves creation of Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence
- Targeted consultation on the draft guidelines for the classification of high-risk artificial intelligence systems (EU)
- The jagged frontier of AI and law (Podcast)
- The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
- What are AI guardrails?
- Your AI Glossary: 54 Terms Everyone Should Know
Misinformation/AI Hallucinations
- A Bibliometric Analysis of Disinformation through Social Media
- A Framework for Information Disorder: Modeling Mechanisms and Implications Based on a Systematic Literature Review
- A Strategic Roadmap for Mitigating Generative Artificial Intelligence Hallucination
- AI Hallucinations and the Misinformation Dilemma
- AI is getting more powerful, but its hallucinations are getting worse (2025)
- AI Misinformation vs AI Hallucinations: What’s the Difference
- AI keeps inventing fake cases. Lawyers keep citing them
- Asking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study finds (2025)
- Combatting Disinformation: Analyzing Effective Communication Strategies and Tactics for Organizational Resilience
- Deep Fakes
- Fact or Fiction? Artificial Intelligence Misinformation
- Future of disinformation studies: emerging research fields (2023)
- “Hacking and information disorder: the weaponization of leaking”
- Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
- Hallucination Mitigation using Agentic AI Natural Language-Based Frameworks
- Information disorder: disinformation, misinformation and a ‘polluted’ information space
- Information Disorder and Resilience in the Global South: Structural Drivers, Governance, Media Literacy, and Fact-Checking
- Information Disorder Report (Council of Europe)
- Key insights from BBC Media Action’s research into information disorder around the world (2024)
- Mapping the Impact of Generative AI on Disinformation: Insights from a Scoping Review
- Mis- and disinformation (OECD)
- Misinformation vs. Disinformation in the Age of AI
- Misinformation, Disinformation & Malinformation: A Guide (Princeton Library)
- New sources of inaccuracy? A conceptual framework for studying AI hallucinations
- Scientists’ behaviour towards information disorder: A systematic review (2024)
- The Risks of AI Hallucinations and Misinformation: An Examination of ChatGPT and DeepSeek
- The trust crisis in artificial intelligence: AI hallucinations and human-AI collaboration
- When AI ‘Fictions’ Redirect History: Generative Models, Historiography and Misinformation (2025)
- When AI Gets It Wrong: Addressing AI Hallucinations and Bias
Open Access, A2K, Research and Scholarly Communication (incl. AI)
- A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop
- AI-generated papers overwhelm academic peer review
- Analysis reveals AI’s impact on research, journals
- APC Caps and Bans — Why Funder Policies Aimed at Curbing the Publishing Industry Don’t Work
- Artificial intelligence as a reflexive collaborator in graduate studies supervision (2025)
- ArXiv to Ban Authors for a Year Over Unchecked AI-Generated Research Papers
- Calls for African code of conduct for research integrity
- ChatGPT in thematic analysis: Can AI become a research assistant in qualitative research?
- Framing the source: How African newsrooms present information disorders
- Generative AI creates transparency crisis in research
- Guest Post — A Friendly Debate: Where Automation Will (And Should) Land in the Research Lifecycle
- Guest Post — When AI Helps Write Research: What Happens to Lived Experience?
- Guest Post — When Thinking Is Outsourced: A Warning from a Scientist Trained Before AI
- Harvard-backed ToolUniverse reaches 500,000 AI agent analyses across 113 countries
- NASA just dropped more than 12,000 Artemis II photos—here’s how to see them
- Promoting Collaboration and Partnership among Science Academies in Africa (ADI2026)
- Taking digital inequality seriously for digital public infrastructure and data governance
- The Arithmetic of Prestige: How Research Metrics Began to Measure Everything Except Thought
- UNESCO 2026 Global Education Monitoring Report
- University of Free State drops AI detectors over accuracy concerns
- Why Scholarly Societies Must Compete Through Stewardship, Not Scale
Research Integrity – Challenges & Deceptive Practices
- Five early warning signs of research misconduct
- If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
- Researcher Ordered to Repay Grants Over Alleged Plagiarism
- Scientific Integrity in the Age of AI and the challenges of transparency: Fraud, manipulation, and the new transparency challenges
- The rise of ‘predatory’ publishing (2026)
Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)
- Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities
- Envisioning AI’s Role in Libraries: Perspectives from an LIS Student, a Library Director, and a University Librarian
- From Information Literacy to AI Literacy: Preparing Librarians for Emerging Responsibilities
- Leveraging Technology, Copyright, and Libraries to Benefit the Public Interest
- Librarians as guides in the age of AI
- Libraries as proactive agents in the age of artificial intelligence (AI): an interview with Loida Garcia Febo
- The future of libraries: a dialogue with CUHK’s university librarian
- Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy
- Why Libraries Matter Now More Than Ever to Democracy: Legal and Policy Issues Affecting the Future of Public Knowledge
Workshops/Webinars – 2026
- Scholarly Horizons – Topics Include: Copyright, Plagiarism, Citation and Quotation, Open Access, Scholarly Communication, Deceptive Publishing Practices, AI Issues, POPIA, Data management and Archival matters, and Others – For more information, email: Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com
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