The advent of generative AI has unsettled the basic assumptions of copyright law. AI systems now routinely ingest vast amounts of copyrighted material—books, music, journalism, artwork—, in order to ...

The unprecedented Covid-19 (Covid) virus has brought to the forefront many challenges associated with exclusive rights, information sharing, and innovation. How do we get effective diagnostics, ...

WIPO General Assembly Meeting on SCCR Expresses Consensus for Progress on Broadcast and L&E Instruments ...

By Jonathan Band, Policy Bandwidth In the heated copyright discussions over generative artificial intelligence, the term “text and data mining” is sometimes used interchangeably with “machine learning ...

AIDS activists, researchers, and service providers are challenging Gilead’s decision to enter into narrow, bilateral voluntary licenses for its long-acting antiretroviral, lenacapavir (LEN-LA), ...

In Part I of this blogpost, I briefly set out the procedural history of the copyright reform process that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill to the Constitutional Court. I also briefly ...

The South African Copyright Amendment Bill at the Constitutional Court: Notes from the Presidential Referral of the Bill (Part I) ...

Natasha Karanja & Chebet Koros Strathmore University Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CC-BY) Link When evaluating the copyright ecosystem within the African continent, ...

Despite the weight of a packed agenda and the significance of several recent treaty milestones, the Sixty-Sixth Series of Meetings of the WIPO General Assembly is expected to unfold key institutional ...

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In recent days, as many teachers have faced an abrupt shift to online teaching, there have been questions about how copyright law applies to the translation of classroom-based practices of reading ...

Who has the ability to take language data from African communities and develop an AI tool? Anyone with the capability can do that. And you’ll find that there are certain jurisdictions that have more ...