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Archive for June 25th, 2005

It’s about free speech, beer and trademarks - Where constitutional law hurts the zamalek

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

by ccSA volunteer, Chris Bester
The South African Constitutional Court handed down its judgment in the LIO matter on Friday 27 May 2005. In a unanimous judgment, the court agreed with LIO’s submission that South African Breweries had not shown that LIO’s parodying of its “Black Label” trademark was likely to have caused economic harm to […]

ccSouth Africa and ccBrazil announce a joint project at the iCommons Summit

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

ccSA legal lead, Andrew Rens and I are at the Harvard Law School for the first cc iCommons Summit. It’s incredibly exciting. Over 80 people from around the world debating and finding common solutions to the challenges of an organisation growing at an amazing rate. Ronaldo Lemos, Director of ccBrazil, and I took the opportunity […]