DA Welcomes President Ramaphosa’s action on Copyright Amendment Bill
22 June 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) believes that President Ramaphosa’s decision to refer the Copyright Amendment Bill back to Parliament is the right decision.
This follows the DA’s petition to President Ramaphosa in 2019 to have the Bill sent back due to constitutional concerns.
When the Bill was before the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry in the 5th Parliament, The DA argued at the time that it was fatally flawed for a number of reasons including:
The introduction of ‘fair use’ which gives individuals the right to use copyrighted work ‘fairly’, in essence to circumvent copyright protections and republish them without consent;