Maverick Citizen Op-Ed: Activists call on MPs to stop the violation of the rights of print-disabled people and approve the Copyright Amendment Bill

from multinational publishing and film industries that would continue to benefit from South Africa’s outmoded copyright legislation, which predates the digital age.

The portfolio committee will deliberate the following areas of the bills: the classification of the bills, provisions that introduce retrospective remedies, the delegation of legislative power to the minister and the extent of public participation in the process of formulating the fair-use clause, as well as the list of copyright exceptions and international treaty implications.

Fair use is the heartbeat of the creative economy and also impacts on those in the education and disability rights sectors.

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