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Intellectual Property
Copyright – South Africa
- Copyright Amendment Bill B13F-2017 – The Constitutional Court has not made its decision known as yet.
Copyright – Globally
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- AI and copyright – the state of play, post the US AI Action Plan
- AI wins in court as book training deemed fair use
- Achingly complex calculations needed in navigating copyright law and AI
- Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use Defences for AI Training Done for “Research” and “Learning,” or the Inescapable Licensing Horizon
- Denmark introduces legislation to protect its citizens from AI deepfakes
- EU-commissioned study on generative AI and copyright suggests overturning the current opt-out approach …
- Empowering Learners for the Age of AI
- Fair Use in the Age of AI: When Training Isn’t Copying, and Licensing Isn’t the Law
- Generative AI & Copyright Law In India: Who Owns Machine-Made Works?
- Global Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Regulation (2025)
- Harmonizing AI and Copyright: Fair Use in the Age of Generative Music
- Human Creativity Reigns: Guidance for Content Creators on What is (and is Not) Protected by Copyright when Using AI
- Insuring Intellectual Property – Examining AI and Fair Use
- Latest Developments on Training GenAI with Copyrighted Works and Some ‘What Ifs?’
- Promoting AI for Good in the Global South – Highlights
- The Right Copyright: Library association engagement in copyright
- around the world (IFLA)
- Training AI with copyrighted books ruled ‘fair use’ in US: Implications for SA
- Two Key Federal Court Rulings on AI Training and Copyright
Artificial Intelligence (General)
- A four-pillar framework for using AI in university libraries
- AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
- AI could soon think in ways we don’t even understand …
- AI detection for peer reviewers: Look out for red flags (SAGE)
- AI ‘hallucinations’ are threatening the administration of justice in SA
- Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research
- Can academics use AI to write journal papers? What the guidelines say
- Empowering Learners for the Age of AI
- Humans must be the decisionmakers when AI is used in legal proceedings
- Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers
- Only the Humanities Can Save the University from AI
- Researchers Embed Hidden Prompts in Academic Papers to Manipulate AI Reviewers
- South African lawyers call for rules for AI use in court
- The AI tool that actually understands South African law
- The Impact of AI on Scholarly Publishing and Media Credibility: Navigating Opportunities …
- Why evaluating the impact of AI needs to start now
Open Access, A2K, Libraries and Scholarly Communication
- ASSAf’s Code of Best Practice in Scholarly Journal Publishing, Editing and Peer Review
- Editorial: It’s about time for transparency in peer review
- Journal edition cancellation sends a chilling message
- Recommended Licenses and Tools for Cultural Heritage Content
- Q&A: Why South Africa updated its scholarly publishing code
- Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
- Scientific publishing needs urgent reform to retain trust in research process
- SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
- We must break the link between publisher revenue and article volume
Retractions and Predatory Publishing Practices
- Journal plagued with problematic papers, likely from paper mills, pauses submissions
- Predatory publishers appear in PubMed (and your inbox)
- Retractions in scientific publishing: Why they happen and why they matter
- Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
- Springer Nature to retract machine learning book following Retraction Watch coverage
Training/Courses
- AI and Human Rights in Africa (Oct 2025)
- Empowering yourself with AI knowledge: Self-guided training resources
- Introduction to Copyright for Archivists (ICA)
Webinars/Workhops
For more information or to arrange webinars/workshops, please email Denise.Nicholson@scholarlyhorizons.com
AI and Research webinars/workshops – For more information, please email Dr. K. Krauss at kirstin.krauss@wwis.co.za
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