[Irtalk] Workshop Commends South Africa Copyright Bill Goals; Offers Suggestions for Improvement

[Ina Smith]

Dear Lazarus (and Sean)

Many thanks for sharing this resource!

There is also an article in the Moneyweb today (thanks to Karin Oxley for sharing!):

Copyright Amendment Bill boggles legal minds
http://today.moneyweb.co.za/article?id=503551&acid=CcrDrzFm%2Fz4eZeuwhd4cWQ%3D%3D&adid=ChKWdjbcb68eZeuwhd4cWQ%3D%3D&date=2015-08-21#.Vdb4M_mqr44

Kind regards
Ina

From: irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] On Behalf Of Lazarus Matizirofa
Sent: 21 August 2015 11:15 AM
To: irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
Subject: [Irtalk] FW: Workshop Commends South Africa Copyright Bill Goals; Offers Suggestions for Improvement

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please find enclosed a link to a blog on the copyright reform workshop we held in Pretoria last week, co-hosted by the University of South Africa Intellectual Property Flagship, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, the University of Cape Town Intellectual Property Unit, the University of the Witwatersand Library, Creative Commons South Africa and the Cultural Industries Legal and Advisory Centre.

This blog is released under a CC By license for re-use by others. Feel free to cross-post, quote, re-use, etc.

http://infojustice.org/archives/34863

As noted in the blog, the due date for comments on the bill has been extended to 16th of September 2015. The sponsors of the workshop are working together on a set of comments from international and South African academics.

With kind regards,

Sean M Fiil Flynn
Associate Director
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP)
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