Comment Submitted to the Protfolio Committee on Trade and Industry by Wikimedia ZA President Douglas Scott
Excerpt: We make this submission to request that the current South African law be amended to protect the right of FoP, namely the right to represent public works of art and architecture in other derivative works, such as in photographs or video. This could be achieved through either a specific exception or through an open list (i.e. open to purpose) fair use right in Sec. 12 of the Act.
Protecting FoP in the new bill would help to create a copyright framework that would maximise the public good from Copyright, without unduly eroding the rights of copyright owners.
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