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Kakooza explores the progress Uganda has made in implementing the objectives of the 2013 Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled (“Marrakesh Treaty”), one year after it ratified and domesticated it. While the Ugandan legal framework reflects the same human rights principles as […]
By Andres Izquierdo On September 20 and 21, 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) hosted its Eighth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies. Central to the discourse was the pivotal role of training data in shaping the capabilities of Generative AI, with a strong emphasis on its intersection […]
Amidst the copyright reform debate in South Africa, the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA) recently initiated its #NationalShutDownMarch campaign, in opposition of the reform. The article highlights how the CCIFSA has positioned itself as a quasi-political movement to mobilise support for the ANC and its leading figures. Moreover, there has been […]
Creative Commons (CC) has engaged with a wide variety of stakeholders such as artists and content creators, as part of its ongoing community consultation on generative AI, to explore ways of addressing the artists’ concerns. CC has published an open letter from over 70 artists who use generative AI. Some of the perspectives shared by […]
This book examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the consequences of widespread educational technologies, specifically how technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind and details the many ways education was diminished even when technology was available and worked […]
On the 18th and 19th of September 2023 the Heads of State and Government and high representatives, met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, to review progress and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Among the commitments reaffirmed for sustainable development, many remaining gaps and commitments […]
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