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Intellectual Property:
Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: When the Remedy is the Wrong
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3374048
Submissions to USTR hearings re: review of SA trade agreements re: Copyright Amendment Bill
https://libguides.wits.ac.za/Copyright_and_Related_Issues/tradeissues
WIPO and the US Copyright Office Examine Artificial Intelligence and, to Lesser Extent, Intellectual Property
http://infojustice.org/archives/42003
Submission of Knowledge Ecology International on WIPO’s draft issues paper on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence
https://www.keionline.org/32253
Policy Incoherence for Stagnation: How Richer Countries’ Position at WIPO Contradicts their Commitments to the Rest of the World
http://infojustice.org/archives/41999
Intellectual Property Raises Costs of Living
http://www.ipsnews.net/2020/02/intellectual-property-raises-costs-living/
Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: a Better Set of Approaches for the 21st century (2017)
Trump Might Do Something Genuinely Good for Science
If My AI Wrote this Post, Could I Own the Copyright?
Tough negotiations in US over SA copyright bill
The Machine as Author
http://infojustice.org/archives/41935
Predatory Publishing Practices:
Check for publication integrity before misconduct
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03959-6
Predatory journals: no definition, no defence
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y
Predatory journals: no definition, no defence
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y
India’s Fight Against Predatory Journals: An Interview with Professor Bhushan Patwardhan
“Fake news” and credibility in medical publishing
Highly cited researcher banned from journal board for citation abuse
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00335-7