IN THIS ISSUE
Copyright – South Africa
- Respecting The Lens, Part 2: Why “I Didn’t Know I Needed Permission” Is Not a Copyright Defence
- Rethinking copyright ownership in the digital age: Perspectives on authorship of AI-generated works
- WIPO Director General Daren Tang Visits South Africa, Pledges Support for its Innovation and Creative Economy
Copyright – Globally
- Albanese to push for global AI guardrails but won’t commit on copyright
- EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype
- Ephemerality of the Performance as a Problem of Objective Form in Copyright
- Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights in Africa
- From Upcycling to Book Destruction: Copyright Exhaustion’s Environmental Paradox
- Generative AI Works and Copyright Law: A Comparative Legal Perspective
- Public Knowledge Warns Copyright Bill Puts Small Businesses at Risk of Global Website Blocking (US)
- Right to repair: New consumer rights for easy and attractive repairs
- Victory: Court, using a New Test, Rules Embedding Links is Legal
Copyright & AI
Artificial Intelligence
- AI ethics after generative AI: from consequences to effects
- An Analysis of National AI Strategies in Africa
- Artificial Intelligence as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education: Enhancing Reflection and Formative Assessment
- CheatBench: Measuring Reward Gaming in AI Agents
- Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all
- Governing What We Did Not Build: Africa’s AI Policy Gap
- Hallucination-free (hopefully) — new draft AI policy will be ready by March, says Malatsi (South Africa)
- How AI is rewiring the human brain: the generational transformation of cognition and knowing
- How AI Threatens the Social Contract of Free Knowledge
- Human Rights and the Regulation of AI (UK)(2026-7)
- Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
- Meta Is Using You to Build a Robot Empire
- No need to destroy books in Singapore to legally use them for training AI, say experts (Singapore)
- Ramaphosa urges caution on AI advancements, echoing developers
- Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow
- What are the top threats posed by AI and should you be worried?
- Who should set the rules for AI? The UN is pushing for a safer digital future
- Will AI change the way humans think? Scientists are beginning to find out
Libraries & Archives
- Archiving the present: a community guide to archiving languages, memories & knowledges
- Exploring the Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in GLAM Collections
- From service provider to strategic partner: What librarians want from publishers
- HathiTrust receives grant to deliver AI-enabled access to digital books
- Libraries as Drivers of Institutional Reputation
- The Contribution of Public Libraries Towards Literacy in the Fifth Industrial Revolution
- The Entrepreneurial Librarian: Creating Value Beyond Traditional Services
- The Human Layer: Why AI Makes Academic Libraries More Essential, Not Less
- The Librarian as a Policy Advisor: Influencing Research, Education and Knowledge Governance
- The Reading Crisis Begins Before a Child Opens a Textbook
- UNESCO Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms
Research Integrity & Scholarly Communication
- Academia must protect disciplinary foundations in the AI era
- Adding Authors After Submission: How Difficult Should It Be?
- AI, humans and the university in an era of (un)becoming
- AI companies must work with the research community to protect attribution
- AI is making science easier to access but harder to trust. Scientific literacy must catch up, writes Giulia Stefenelli
- Ask the Chefs: Peer Review Capacity — Uncomfortable Truths and Overlooked Conversations
- Connecting Decolonization Efforts in Small Museums Through Wikidata
- Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: Multilingual Researchers’ Use of AI in Academic Writing
- Digital Sovereignty In South African Higher Education
- Do Journals Actually Know Who Their Authors Are?
- Does Peer Review Favor Familiarity Over Innovation?
- Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Daniela Saderi of PREreview
- MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
- Navigating the AI era in scholarly publishing: transparency, accountability and evolving standards
- Operationalising AI Ethical Principles in Higher Education with the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence …
- Qualitative Research in an Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Analysis, Workflow, and Computation
- Researchers explore AI, economic resilience and Africa’s growth at UNESCO Chair Seminar
- Rethinking Scholarly Evaluation: Matching Rigor to Purpose
- Should Authors Have to Prove Who They Are?
- Six Ways to Close the Attribution Loop in Publishing
- SU team develops principles for AI use in government (South Africa)
- Teaching for artificial or human intelligence?: A critical perspective on assessment during the AI era
- The AI Crisis in Higher Education (OA book)
- The essay was never proof of learning. GenAI revealed that
- The unseen work that helps peer reviewers make a difference
- What Is Peer Review Worth? Rethinking the Economics of Academic Reviewing
- Who is responsible when AI helps to write science?
Heritage/Traditional Knowledge
- Heritage and just transition – Affirming the role of traditional knowledge systems
- Indigenous Scholars Establish Guidelines for Governance of Indigenous Data in Scholarly Publishing
- Next on Native Bidaské: New Guidelines Aim to Protect Indigenous Knowledge in Scholarly Publishing
- Of Ceilings and Flaws: Negotiating Disclosure in the WIPO Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Treaty
- Why does the impact of digital heritage collections matter?
Questionable/Predatory Practices in Scholarly Communication
Open Access/Open Science
- Anneline Morgan outlines South Africa’s open science agenda in China
- Creative Commons Frequently Asked Questions
- Diamond open access publishing: what it is and how to do it
- Global Resources, Local Contexts: A Scoping Review of the Literature … Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (2016 –2025) (CoL)
- Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Data
- Open Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Using CC-Licensed Works for AI Training
- When Hollywood Comes for Creative Commons Stories
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