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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet examined the standards and policy considerations that should be applied to whether IP protection should be given to ...

The cost of excluding billions of people in Africa and the Global South from access to knowledge could be huge for future generations. Knowledge-sharing in Africa is not always transactional, and the ...

Sean Flynn, Director, PIJIP At this year’s Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit in Mexico City, a group of CC members “identified a set of common issues and values” on copyright and artificial ...

More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world’s population have fair use or fair dealing provisions in their copyright laws. These countries are in all regions of the world and at all levels ...