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“That American policy is very extreme”: how Washington leaned on South Africa over fair use
Cory Doctorow tells Trevor Noah how the US threatened South Africa’s trade benefits to keep fair use out of our copyright law — and MyBroadband lays out the whole record.
Constitutional Court upholds fair use — but sends the Bills back to Parliament
The Constitutional Court upheld fair use and most of the new copyright exceptions on 26 June 2026, but struck down the broad education exceptions — so the Bills return to Parliament before…
Copyright in whose interest? South African litigation raises the question
South African Litigation Raises The Question: Copyright in Whose Interest? The upcoming Constitutional court hearing in South Africa on the Copyright Amendment Bill has ignited a debate about whose interests can and…
News round-up: the Bills pass Parliament (2024)
heading hello world copyright amendment bill passed by national assembly On 29 February 2024, the National Assembly in South Africa passed the Copyright Amendment Bill (Performers Protection Amendment Bill (PPAB). The Bills…
Copyright Amendment Bill in the press (2023)
A Week of Debates on Copyright and Access to Knowledge in Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa from 23 – 27 January 2023. Join policymakers, academics and activists from across the continent.…
Video archive: marches, indabas and debates
march for fair copyright – pretoria 10 December 2020 COPYRIGHT INDABA – Johannesburg 5 December 2019 Decolonising copyright: building our creative and information economy, full debate – Cape Town 14 August 2019…
Press coverage archive: 2019–2020
News 22 July 2019 In the news Half a century of copyright history and South Africa’s new Copyright Amendment Bill (2 July 2019), greysouth. ”At the heart of this row is the…