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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite a full agenda and spirited debate, WIPO’s 39th Program and Budget Committee ended with little to show in terms of any concrete modifications to the proposed 2026/2027 Program and Budget. Key ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The approach to copyright limitations and exceptions differs significantly in each country depending on what models they are following. Generally speaking, there are three models of limitations and ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to a new copyright act that updates the country’s exceptions and limitations for the digital environment. Most significantly, the act replaces a closed ...

The U.S. pharmaceutical industry and its Big Brother Chamber of Commerce have launched an all-out disinformation campaign against the India Patent Act and decisions rendered thereunder. They have ...

The Israel Ministry of Justice has issued an important opinion concluding that the use of copyrighted materials in the machine learning (ML) context is permitted under existing Israeli copyright law.