Legal
Court papers, legal opinions and formal submissions filed by ReCreate South Africa in the campaign for copyright reform. Full documents are published here in an accessible, readable format and as downloadable PDFs.
ReCreate Action: Comments on the Latest Proposed Changes
ReCreate Action — the voluntary association of activists and trade unionists formed in 2021 to support Blind SA’s litigation — sets out its concern that some of the latest proposed changes to…
ReCreate Written Submission to Parliament, January 2022
ReCreate South Africa’s written submission to the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, commenting on the additional definitions and clauses proposed for the Copyright Amendment Bill (2017) [B13–2017] following the President’s referral.
EIFL’s Submission to Parliament on the Copyright Amendment Bill
Electronic Information for Libraries, which works with libraries in more than 50 developing and transition economies, made a submission on the Bill’s exceptions for libraries, education and research, drawing on comparative experience…
CHELSA and LIASA Joint Submission on the Copyright Amendment Bill
A joint submission from the Committee for Higher Education Libraries of South Africa and the Library and Information Association of South Africa on the amendments advertised in December 2021, arguing the case…
Submission on the Copyright Amendment Bill — Denise Nicholson
Denise R. Nicholson, copyright and scholarly communications consultant and recipient of the SALI Trust–LIASA Lifetime Achievement Award, sets out her submission on the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13B–2017]. Drawing on more than two…
AfLIA’s Letter to Parliament on the Copyright Amendment Bill
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions wrote to the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry in support of the Copyright Amendment Bill, setting out why libraries across Africa see South…
Professor Thomas Hoeren: Legal Opinion on the Copyright Amendment Bill
Professor Dr Thomas Hoeren of the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law at the University of Münster examines the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13B–2017] and its latest amendments from a European and…
Klaaren: The Copyright Amendment Bill in 2020 — Diversions, Debates and the Cost of Delay
Professor Jonathan Klaaren’s Wits Open Access Day talk on where the Copyright Amendment Bill stood at the end of 2020 — whether the Bill itself became a diversion from fixing the unconstitutionality…
Legal Opinion 3: The Tagging of the Copyright Amendment Bill
One of the President’s reservations was that the Copyright Amendment Bill had been incorrectly “tagged” — classified as a section 75 bill rather than a section 76 bill, which would change how…
The dtic’s Background Document on the Remitted Bills, August 2020
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s background briefing to the Portfolio Committee after the President remitted the Bills — the purpose of the Copyright Amendment Bill, its objectives, the research and…