Professor Tana Pistorius and I may not see eye to eye on all things (our stance on Hellkom and the Laugh it off case, for example), but I thoroughly enjoyed her inaugural lecture at Unisa on Tuesday night. In her address entitled ‘Digital copyright, exceptions and technological measures: Should digital be different?’ Professor Pistorius […]

The schedule for the Creative Commons South Africa workshop held at the Link Centre in Johannesburg is now available. It’s going to be an exciting Friday, so be sure to join us if you’re interested in getting involved!

APC ccSA WORKSHOP at the Link Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Public and Development Management Campus, Parktown

09.30
Welcome […]

Another great weblog entry from our ‘correspondent’ in the United States, Andrew Jankowich.
The Marvel comic book company, well-known for its characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk and the X-Men, has sued NCSoft Corp. and Cryptic Studios, Inc. the companies that designed and run the City of Heroes video game. You can read Marvel’s legal […]

Andrew writes to Creative Commons South Africa from America about a couple of weird and interesting copyright cases have popped up in recent weeks.
Gone with the Wind is best-known as a famous movie from Hollywood’s golden years. (It was released in the same year as classics like The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, […]

Article by Andrew Rens and Heather Ford, published in De Rebus, December 2004 edition (’news’ section) about the Creative Commons South Africa licences.

OpenCafe is a non-profit Internet café in Potchefstroom. The goal of OpenCafe is to develop an holistic approach to open source. Not only do OpenCafé staff develop and support open source software applications to sustain their venture, they also train teachers, students, artists in the community to use freely available, high quality content like Wikipedia […]

The APC, in collaboration with the Link Centre, is running a workshop to talk about the South African cc licence (first draft by Andrew Rens, our legal lead, here), in preparation for our launch at the end of May. It would be great if we could all put our minds together on this one, so […]

THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE (”CCPL” OR “LICENSE”). THE WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT, PERFOMERS PROTECTIONAND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED.
In South Africa performances are protected by […]

The Draft South African Legal Code is headed:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Draft ZA 2.0
Although a South African 1.0 licence has not been released, the legal code for the first licence is based on the 2.0 version of the Universal Licenceand its Legal Code . To show that we have followed the 2.0 version of the universal licence […]

Lawyers especially common law lawyers have a great respect for precedent and not only do courts follow precedent but lawyers have traditionally used precedents in drafting legal documents. These tend to get handed down from one lawyer to another, being modified all the while, and tested in courts from time to time.
Thus most legal documents […]

The Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) decided to use the Creative Commons attribution no derivatives 2.0 licence to distribute their stories from their latest project in Accra. This enables other news organisations to distribute verbatim copies of the newspaper - even for commercial use. The paper, ‘WSIS Africa Agenda’ was distributed at the Accra meeting […]

The Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) is producing the daily paper, ‘WSIS Africa Agenda’ at the Africa preparatory meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society in Accra, Ghana. Not only did they write a great article about the Creative Commons workshop the other day, they have also decided to use the licence […]

I’m writing to you from Accra, in Ghana, where I joined a group from the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT on Tuesday to talk about the potential of Creative Commons in West Africa. It was a fascinating discussion – led by Centre Director, Dorothy Gordon and Guido Sohne, a local FOSS proponent and […]