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Constitutional Court declares Copyright Act unconstitutional

22 November 2022

Does copyright protection prohibit the distribution of works in formats that are accessible to people with print and visual impairments?... Our Constitutional Court had occasion to consider this important question in the recent judgment of Blind SA v Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition and Others. 

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Your creative works are protected!

15 July 2022

With technology and accessibility to creative tools, platforms and social media expanding the ease and accessibility of creating anything from... your own music to a short film and everything in between, it raises the question of copyright protection and how far it goes to protect your creative output in a world where sharing, copying, linking and passing on of information is only a click away.

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Copyright Amendment Bill: Unsound proposals in relation to sound recordings

14 July 2017

I am a musician and own a number of my sound recordings which I have independently produced and manage. I’m... troubled by the latest Copyright Amendment Bill which now seems to require me to join a collecting society if I want to ensure that my sound recordings are played on air by radio stations. Is my interpretation of the Bill correct?

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