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The long running process to reform South Africa’s Copyright law has passed another milestone — failing to be signed into law in time to meet a deadline set by the country’s Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court held last year that the Copyright Act unconstitutionally discriminated against the blind and gave the state until September 21 to remedy the deficiencies by calling into force the long delayed Copyright Amendment Bill. But Saturday’s deadline came and went without the Bill being signed into law by the President, on whose desk the bill still sits. The delayed action has brought new threats of litigation by Section 27, a South African NGO that represented organizations for the blind in the litigation. An interview with Christoffel (Christo) de Klerk, President of Blind South Africa, on the Bill and litigation can be seen on Youtube here and on eNCA here.

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