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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- All they ask is access to books: SA is failing the blind
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – Decision still awaited from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
- Fighting for the royalty treatment: IP disputes in SA’s music scene
Copyright – Globally
- Copyright and creative commons licenses in scholarly publishing: A practical guide for researchers
- Copyright bill passes, but schools urge deeper reform (Australia)
- Copyright’s Invisible Hand: Subsidizing America’s Cultural Institutions
- History of the Negotiations of the TRIPS Agreement
- New study: Navigating Legal Uncertainty in European Museums
- Photographer Loses Lawsuit After Museum’s Use of His Image Is Ruled Fair Use
- Reaction Videos and Copyright Law: Best Practices to Stay Out of Court
- The first major Generative AI and copyright case in Brazil: first impressions and challenges ahead
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI
- Don’t Let Recent AI Lawsuits Fool You, Users Are Still Greatly Disadvantaged in a Digital-First Ecosystem
- GEMA v OpenAI: Memory is Fragile. Garbage Lasts Forever.
- The AI and copyright law policy dilemma (UK)
- The future of AI in Africa must be just
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Thought
- Who is responsible for agentic AI?
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- A global publishing scam assisted by AI has targeted Australia. Here are 5 tips to avoid scammers
- Africa’s AI Governance Landscape
- AI in Public Decision-Making: A Philosophical and Practical Framework for Assessing and Weighing Harm and Benefit
- AI security risk in Africa: The interplay of digital infrastructure and economic participation
- Artificial Intelligence: Progress or peril? (Video)
- Artificial intelligence in education
- Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
- Cost Savings, AI and the Public Sector
- EU prepares to delay landmark AI rules by one year
- Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
- Moving Beyond the Term “Global South” in AI Ethics and Policy
- Teaching Responsible Use of AI
- Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence (A Global Study 2025)
- Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing
- Responsible use of generative artificial intelligence tools in research practice
Open Access, A2K, and Scholarly Communication
- AI and the Future of Learning
- AI and the Future of Universities
- Big Ten Open Books
- Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing
- cOAlition-s-announces-2026-2030-strategic-plan-to-advance-open-access-and-equitable-knowledge-sharing
- Co-creating knowledge: Implementing localised open educational practices in blended learning environments
- Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science
- Generative AI Chatbots in Higher Education: Student experiences and perceived ethical challenges
- How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research
- Open science crucial to reversing scant access to knowledge
- Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud in the U.S.
- Reframing failure in digital scholarship
- South Africa to host two international science meetings
- The Case for a EU Digital Knowledge Act
- The hidden cost of open access: Artificial intelligence, paywalls and the risk of knowledge inequity
- You don’t need to steal art from the Getty to have it at home. The museum is giving it away
Libraries and Archives (incl. AI)
- A New Paradigm for Librarianship: A Review of Library Associations’ Work and AI from 2019 Until the Present
- AI Literacy for Library Workers: self-study course
- Benchmarking AI Models in the Library: Critical Questions for Library Professionals and Users
- From Backwater to Battleground – Law, Libraries, and Research
- Future Trends of Open-Source AI in Libraries: Implications for Librarianship and Service Delivery
- Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit
- How libraries and publishers are shaping the future of AI in research
- IFLA Entry Point to Libraries and AI
- Launching our new Digital Preservation Policy
- Libraries as agents of decolonisation: Exploring the integration … in South African public higher education libraries
Marrakesh Treaty (2013)
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
Webinars
- Webinars/workshop on various topics, including Copyright, plagiarism, scholarly communication, open access, deceptive publishing practices, POPIA, etc. – For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com
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