The reform of copyright law in South Africa, particularly for the library and educational sectors, has been a long and bumpy road since 1998. Our copyright law is 41 years old – and broken! The ...

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 ...

More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world’s population have fair use or fair dealing provisions in their copyright laws. These countries are in all regions of the world and at all levels ...

Vyas discusses copyright’s “balance” metaphor, alleged to have originated in the 1785 British case Sayre v. Moore. This paper aims to contribute to the exploration of the genealogy of this concept in ...

Executive Summary: This report identifies pharmaceutical drug patents granted in likely contravention of anti-evergreening provisions under section 3 of the Indian Patents Act, from a cohort of 2293 ...

In the heated copyright discussions over generative artificial intelligence, the term “text and data mining” is sometimes used interchangeably with “machine learning” or the “ingestion of material” to ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held its General Assembly (GA) this week, including a review of the progress and recommendations of the Standing ...

In this blog post, leading Design Law Professor Sarah Burstein argues that the negotiating draft of the WIPO Design Law Treaty contains a little noticed provision, buried in its “regulations,” that ...

On 21 and 22 May 2025, the South African Constitutional Court heard the matter of Ex Parte President of the Republic of South Africa: In re Constitutionality of the ...

“There has been progressive encroachment of IP upon the ‘pre-competitive’ phase. At the earlier stages of research and development, there’s already a company looking at that and trying to make it not ...

On 7 May 2025, the Constitutional Court of South Africa handed down judgment in Blind SA v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others [2025] ZACC 9 (‘Blind SA II’). The judgment read-in an ...

In July 2025, Tanuja Garde assumed the role of Director of the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division at the World Trade Organization (WTO). She holds a bachelor’s ...