Copyright Amendment Bill linked to South Africa’s loss of AGOA benefits

South Africa’s Freedom Front Plus says that, after a decade of uncertainty created by the Copyright Amendment Bill, it has now also caused serious economic damage, after it was cited as one of the reasons for the termination of South Africa’s African Growth and Opportunity Act benefit. In June this year, the Constitutional Court found sections of the bill unconstitutional. The FF Plus’s Jaco Mulder says the objections that the country’s intellectual property policy does not comply with AGOA mainly centred on the bill’s “fair use” provision.

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