<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Stellenbosch University Library<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html" target="_blank">http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html</a><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Denise Nicholson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za">Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za</a>></span><br>Date: 28 July 2015 at 14:14<br>Subject: FW: Urgent notice: Copyright Amendment Bill published on 27 July 2015 published for public comment (30 days to do this)1<br>To: Hilton Gibson <<a href="mailto:hilton.gibson@gmail.com">hilton.gibson@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SOUTH AFRICAN COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT BILL 2015 FOR PUBLIC COMMENT<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">As you may know, we have been lobbying since 1998 for better copyright laws. On 27 July 2015, the Department of Trade and Industry published a new Copyright Amendment Bill for public comment.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">See: <a href="http://www.gov.za/documents/copyright-amendment-bill-comments-invited-27-jul-2015-0000" target="_blank">
http://www.gov.za/documents/copyright-amendment-bill-comments-invited-27-jul-2015-0000</a>. Now you have the chance to comment and ensure that the Copyright Bill provides adequate provisions for education, research, libraries, archives, persons with disabilities,
</span><span style="color:#1f497d">digitisation, </span><span style="color:#1f497d">etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Interested persons may submit written comments on the proposed Copyright Amendment Bill in writing within
<u>30 (Thirty) calendar days from the date of publication of this Notice (i.e. 27 JULY 2015)</u> to :-
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Director General, Department of Trade and Industry<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">For Attention: Meshendri Padayachy<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Email: <a href="mailto:MPadayachy@thedti.gov.za" target="_blank">
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