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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – No decision yet from the Constitutional Court. Hearings were on 21 and 22 May 2025.
- Revealed — music publishing giants implicated in report on R62m irregular royalty claims at SAMRO
- SAMRO in Crisis and Legends Seeking Justice for Dues
Copyright – Globally
- Crossing the Bridge: Copyright Trolls
- EFF Urges Supreme Court to Limit ISP Copyright Liability Risks (U.S)
- Ethical Content Use: What Every Creator Should Know About Copyright and Fair Use
- The 18th-century legal case that changed the face of music copyright law
- The Economics of Online Copyright: A New Framework for Platform Regulation
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI companies want copyright exemptions – for NZ creatives, the market is their best protection
- AI Inventors? Thaler Commissioner Decision
- Chinese court rules AI image-image copying is infringement
- Copyright and Generative AI: Recent Developments on the Use of Copyrighted Works in AI
- Copyright and Generative AI: what Australia can learn from the Meta and Anthropic Rulings
- Fair Use in AI Training: What Is Considered “Transformative?” (Podcast)
- Generative AI: Navigating intellectual property
- Top music body says AI firms guilty of ‘wilful’ copyright theft
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- Advancing Responsible Innovation: a Playbook
- AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it
- AI literacy as the new academic literacy for students
- Beyond ‘we used ChatGPT’: a new way to declare AI in research
- ChatGPT isn’t great for the planet. Here’s how to use AI responsibly.
- Deepfakes and South African law: remedies on paper, gaps in practice
- From Detection to Disclosure — Key Takeaways on AI Ethics from COPE’s Forum
- Guest Post – How the AI Debate Has Changed in Just a Few Short Years
- Guest Post — May the AI be with Science
- How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities
- Librarians grapple with AI-generated material in collections
- Libraries and AI: building trusted partnerships for open research
- Redefining Research: Elsevier Announces Next-Generation AI-Powered Researcher Solution
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on eLearning
- The promise and perils of AI use in peer review
- What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content
Open Access, A2K, Libraries and Scholarly
- Blind leading the blind: When professors don’t publish but students must
- Guest Post — Building Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Metrics
- Journals waking up to African researchers’ plight to publish
- Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research
- Navigating the future of peer review in the age of generative AI
- Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review
- Shadow Libraries to Citizen Science: Defending the Constitutional Duty of Inquiry
- The future of knowledge and who should control it
- Who gets to do science? A demand for English is hurting marginalised researchers
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- AI Copycat Papers Surge, Threatening Research Integrity in Journals
- Artificial intelligence could help detect ‘predatory’ journals
- COPE Releases New Retraction Guidelines
- Funders and universities urged to join fight against paper mills
- Math has publication fraud, too
- New documentary digs into the shadow scholar industry
- Publish Less, Publish Better: Scientists Call for Predatory Publishing Practices to Stop
Conferences/Webinars
- AI and Human Rights in Africa (Oct 2025)
- 19th International Conference & Exhibition on Digital Education, Training & Skills Development – 3 – 5 June 2026 – Accra, Ghana.
- 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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