AI music is here and the South African rulebook is blank

AI music is here and the South African rulebook is blank

Alberton, Johannesburg-based music producer Justin Erasmus Samro, the Southern African Music Rights Organisation, now requires members to disclose how much AI went into a song when they register it with the body. But it sets no minimum level of human contribution, and disclosure “does not, in itself, constitute a determination of copyright eligibility or an…

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Africa: Dozens of New Species Found in One of Africa’s Last Biodiversity Blank Spots

Africa: Dozens of New Species Found in One of Africa’s Last Biodiversity Blank Spots

A major survey of Angola’s remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa’s most exciting biodiversity frontiers. High on Angola’s eastern plateau, in Moxico Province, lies one of Africa’s great almost-unknown treasures: the Angolan Highlands Water Tower. It’s a vast…

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