In Part I of this blogpost, I briefly set out the procedural history of the copyright reform process that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill to the Constitutional Court. I also briefly ...

This blog post is in two parts: Part I deals with the procedural history that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill and sets out an overview of the referral proceedings, and Part II deals with ...

TK’s defiance of epistemic borders is its reality before the current melding of all kinds of boundaries – disciplinary, ...

In February 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released the report “Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy: Context and Direction for Economic Research”, ...

In general, WIPO strives to operate based on consensus and one or a few members can often block progress. But the rules of operation for WIPO actually allow for votes and majority rule. There is a ...

The National Assembly voted for the Copyright Amendment Bill in 2024 amid some intense opposition. The President, instead of signing the Bill into law, invoked his presidential prerogative in terms of ...

Although other WIPO Committees, primarily through the Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE), work on IP enforcement capacity building, the issue has not been adopted into the CDIP’s work. Thus, the ...

The reason for Blind SA’s application to the Constitutional Court was a direct result of the President’s failure to do ...