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 – Globally
- Building Up a Balanced Global Intellectual Property System: Report of the WIPO Assemblies’ Sixty-sixth Series of Meetings
- Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going
- Collaborating On Copyright: How To Manage Joint Ownership Effectively
- Copyright News: Can artificial intelligence create a copyrightable work? Supreme Court is asked to take a second look, (Oct 14, 2025)
- Inconsistent copyright laws cited among hurdles to open heritage
- Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
- The dilemma of copyright: ‘Countries in the South need more access to innovation’
- WIPO SCCR 47- Agenda – December 2025
- WIPO SCCR47 – 2025 – Proposals for L & Es – Africa Group – Oct 2025
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
- AI and copyright: Open access, fair reward, and cultural sovereignty
- AI and copyright: the true, the false, and the uncertain
- AI and copyright infringement: Drilling down into the ‘text and data mining’ exception
- AI company will pay authors $1.5 billion in damages after using their copyrighted works to train its models
- AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Good: Enabling AI for Health Innovation and Access through Intellectual Property (IP)
- Copyright Should Not Protect Artists from Artificial Intelligence
- Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI
- SA author Zakes Mda wins share of $1.5bn in AI copyright lawsuit
- The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs
- The New York Times v. OpenAI: The Case That Could End Journalism or Break AI
- Tech Talks – The AI & copyright conundrum: Global challenges and regulations
- The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
- Training Data on Trial: AI’s First Fair Use Test
- Who Owns AI Art? Supreme Court is Being Asked to Draw the Line
- Your Code Has No Copyright: Reshaping How We Build Software
- Worried About AI Monopoly? Embrace Copyright’s Limits
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- AI chatbots fail at accurate news, major study reveals
- AI and Education for collective intelligence: A futures perspective
- AI in Open Access: Revolutionizing Digital Repositories for Knowledge Sharing
- AI Slop Is Destroying the Internet (YouTube)
- AI tools combat paper mill fraud in scientific publishing as peer review system struggles
- AI Usage Checklist (Unisa Press)
- As AI blurs the lines between real and synthetic data, strong governance is essential
- Don’t use AI for research until you’ve watched this…NEW Rules (YouTube)
- Don’t Use Al to Paraphrase Until You Watch This (YouTube)
- Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) use guidelines and acknowledgement for authors (Unisa Press)
- Ethical Reasons to Avoid Using AI Apps for Student Assessment
- Generative Artificial Intelligence: Evolving Technology, Growing
- Societal Impact, and Opportunities for Information Systems Research
- How AI exposes the moral hypocrisy of academic publishing
- Institutional Repositories and AI Scraping
- Legal protections for Artificial Intelligence and different approaches to TDM
- Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds
- The current status and challenges of artificial intelligence in the digital preservation of cultural heritage
- The end of AI and the future of higher education
- The Ethics Cauldron: Brewing Responsible AI Without Getting Burned
- The guidelines for the governance of digital platforms and generative artificial intelligence: companion document (UNESCO)
- What is AI slop?
- Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI
Open Access, A2K, Libraries, Archives and Scholarly Communication
- A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
- Academic Publishing Keeps Getting More Expensive. Some Harvard Scholars Want to Make It Free.
- Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
- Best universities in Africa 2026
- Call to widen global access to public domain heritage
- Can a CC License Constrain Fair Use or Other Copyright Limitations or Exemptions?
- Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
- Cross-border data flows in Africa: An analysis of the alignment with AfCFTA
- Guest Post – The First Year of an Open Access Initiative in Review
- Guide to prevent thefts and illegal trafficking of documentary heritage
- How to Address the e-Lending Problem – Competition and Copyright Law Perspectives (YouTube)
- Interview: Levelling the publishing field
- Less is more: Academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
- Manuscripts Hidden in Tunisia’s Historical Treasures
- Open access and research outputs: Who owns our knowledge?
- Open Heritage Statement – A global call for equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment
- Southern African universities build more scholarly bridges
- SPARC Europe launches the Diamond OA Policy Forum
- The Digital Black Hole: What Happens When Academic Journals Vanish – And How to Protect Your Research
- The mirage of Open Access: articles free of charge for citizens are strangling universities
- When Reviewer Scarcity Becomes a Reason for Rejection, Scientific Integrity Is at Risk
- Who should control open access, the markets or the commons?
- Wiley Launches Interoperable Platform to Power Scientific Discovery in World’s Leading AI Technologies
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
- How the Proliferation of Fraudulent Scientific Papers Is Threatening the Integrity of Cancer Research
- How to Spot Predatory Journals – 4 tips and 2 checklists
- Predatory Publishing (video)
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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