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In choreography, the gray areas of copyright law make it difficult to determine what constitutes copyright infringement or plagiarism.
Distance learning requires not only the right technologies, but also policies that respect intellectual property and personal data. Open educational resources are an approach that is gathering support.
Africa needs to take advantage of a copyright law to protect and explore its unique local products.
The Senate has just announced an inquiry into the use of the Aboriginal flag. Unlike other flags, it is still protected by copyright.
Would you photograph paintings in an art gallery to make a set of postcards? If this scenario give you an ethical twinge, you should feel the same when photographing street art.
Fewer books will be available to South Africans, and the books remaining under copyright will be more expensive, if the country gives in to US pressure to extend its copyright term.
The defacing of a new Banksy mural in Bristol has raised some interesting legal questions.
Libraries, archives, museums and galleries have finally been included in South Africa’s contested new proposed copyright bill.
New regulations on the use of folklore are a hindrance to local artists.
South Africa’s new Copyright Amendment Bill could help the country take an important step in tackling its own “book famine”.
The US pop singer has been ordered to pay a Hip Hop artist for copyright infringement. But the judgment lowers the bar on musical copying.
As the flag’s copyright owner, Luritja artist Harold Thomas has the right to grant licences to whomever he pleases. Asking the government to buy back his copyright licence could be seen as an appropriation of Aboriginal property rights.
A trademark law scholar explains why the impossible-to-apply standard, dating back to the early 20th century, is ineffective and needs to be abolished.
You can’t teach an algorithm to recognise when something is funny.
A judgment by the European court has extended copyright to all literary and artistic creations, but cheese is still not protected.
South Africa’s copyright law must not continue ignoring the principles of fair use.
The relief that the U.S. didn’t make things even worse for Canada in the new NAFTA should be tempered by the realization that the moment of reckoning hasn’t passed; it’s only been postponed.
Individual creators get too small a share of copyright’s rewards. What Bryan Adams is proposing in Canada could also work in Australia to help authors get paid and keep works available to the public.
It’s worth noting some key points about copyright and ownership before signing up to social media sites like Instagram.
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University London
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Dean of Law, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Law, University of New England
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Professor, University of Gondar
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
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Research professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor in Commericial Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Law Professor, American University
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
