IN THIS ISSUE
Copyright – South Africa
Copyright – Globally
- Anti-Circumvention Laws Raise the Cost of Knowledge
- Chokepoint Capitalism – How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back
- Countries without Copyright Laws
- 5 Fixes to Copyright (EU)
- The Freedom of Expression-Dimension of Text and Data Mining and AI Training
- Viral, Valuable, and Potentially Costly: Who Owns Memes?
Copyright and AI
- Commission seeks feedback on challenges and way forward in the area of effect of technology on copyright
- Copyright laws and generative AI: Results of a CLM survey
- Fair use or foul play? US Court rejects fair use defence in AI training case
- 5 Fixes to Copyright
- Is Copyright Law the Wrong Weapon Against AI?
- Reframing Copyright Law for the AI Era: The ANI v. OpenAI Case
- Who Owns the Right to Learn?
Artificial Intelligence
- AI can act exactly like a human, but we still don’t think it’s conscious
- AI Resources
- Anthropic warns AI models may soon self-replicate and could wreak havoc on the web
- The Questions AI Copyright Cases Need to Answer
- There’s not enough money in the world to pay for the AI boom
- Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be
- When artificial intelligence wears a famous face
Access for People with Disabilities & Marrakesh Treaty
- BlindSA takes government to court over delayed Marrakesh Treaty accession
- Blind SA urges government to join Marrakesh Treaty to improve access to books
- Delivering on the promise? Marrakesh Monitoring Report 2026
- National Implementations of the Marrakesh Treaty by Countries that have Ratified or Acceded to the Treaty
- Press Statement: Blind SA takes Minister to Court over delay in South Africa acceding to global treaty on accessible books
- Ten Years of the Marrakesh Treaty: Turning Access into Action
- The Marrakesh Treaty: an EIFL Guide for Libraries (English)
- Why Has South Africa Not Acceded to the Marrakesh Treaty?
Libraries & Archives
- Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities
- AI Policy for Public Libraries: 2026 Library Futures Survey Results
- COMMUNIA Salon – Time to Fix Copyright (video)
- Fact or Fiction? Applying the Copyright Act to Footage of Historical Events
- How Librarians Can Keep Libraries Relevant in the Age of AI?
- The role of universities in ensuring the global development and use of ethical and trustworthy AI
Research Integrity, Higher Education, and Scholarly Communication
- Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
- AI can write the thesis, but can it develop the scholar?
- AI is rewriting scientific publishing — but human judgement remains the final test
- Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Publishing: Are We Moving Faster Than the Evidence?
- Does Traditional Plagiarism Still Matter?
- Freed from Thinking: Protecting Scholarly Publishing from the Slow Erosion of Human Judgment
- Frontiers and SANLiC agree national OA publishing deal in South Africa
- How Much Do Major Academic Publishers Earn From Research Publishing?
- Knowledgespeak Editorial – How Can AI Unlock Editorial Capacity?
- Language Testing, Scholarly Publishing, and the Paradox of Growth
- Open Access Scholarly Publishing and Article Processing Charges: The Perspectives and Experiences of Researchers from Africa in Relation to their Publishing Strategies (ASSAf)
- OER and AI: 2026 (online course)
- Preprint-centric publishing model gets major boost
- Questions academics should ask when looking for a book publisher
- South African universities move beyond AI detection tools
- Springer Nature and Google DeepMind develop AI assistant for peer review
- The global AI divide: Higher education’s readiness gap
- Why can an author give a paper to AI when a reviewer cannot
Heritage/Traditional Knowledge
- Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Data
- Heritage doesn’t fit into a single system – until now.
- The coloniality of memory and cultural heritage: From copyright exceptions to a right to remember under Article 15 of the ICESCR
- Traditional Knowledge/Indigenous Knowledge resources
- Unprotected Heritage: The Inadequate Safeguarding of Traditional Knowledge … under Intellectual Property Law and the TRIPS Agreement (2024)
Questionable/Predatory Practices in Scholarly Communication
- Despite retractions, brain tumor research papers continue to be cited …
- Elsevier journal retracts 100+ papers for authorship issues, editor conflicts of interest
- From print to digital and back again – Why the cost of academic books keeps changing
- Journal Trends Tool Flags Suspicious Journals Before Submission
- Research report: Beware of scientific scams! Hints to avoid predatory publishing in biological journals
- These three red flags could unmask dodgy journals
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