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Creative Commons South Africa (CC Za) is now hosted at Intellectual Property Law Research, at the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town Law School. Tobias Schonwetter, a post doctoral fellow at Intellectual Property Law Research,…
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- Andrew Rens thinks and writes about the interaction of law, knowledge and innovation, and blogs his thoughts at www.aliquidnovi.org. Currently the Intellectual Property Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation (www.shuttleworthfoundation.org) Andrew has worked in academe, private practise and the non profit sector.
He has been the founding Legal Lead for Creative Commons South Africa (http://za.creativecommons.org), a co-founder and director of The African Commons Project (http://theafricancommonsproject.wordpress.com/), a charter member and director of Freedom to Innovate South Africa (www.ftisa.org), and a research associate at the LINK Center at the School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andrew is qualified as an attorney in South Africa, and was awarded a Master of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand where he where he subsequently taught Master's courses in Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media and Information Technology Law, before spending several years in San Francisco, California, where he was ,a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/rens).
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New leadership at Creative Commons South Africa
Creative Commons South Africa (CC Za) is now hosted at Intellectual Property Law Research, at the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town Law School. Tobias Schonwetter, a post doctoral fellow at Intellectual Property Law Research, has taken over as legal lead from yours truly.… Continue
Posted on June 30, 2009 at 4:45pm —
Proposed Regulations for the IPR from Publicly Financed Research Act are unconsitutional
Draft Regulations intended to be approved by the Minister of Science and Technology have been published for comment. The proposed regulations are available at Parliamentary Monitoring Group site.(PMG does a great job of making important government documents available to the public via the Internet).
The regulations are unconstitutional, I explain why on my blog.
The regulations are unconstitutional, I explain why on my blog.
Posted on April 20, 2009 at 11:00am —
Call for a Comprehensive National Broadband Strategy for South Africa
A coalition alliance of organisations have launched a call for a comprehensive national broadband strategy which will ensure that 'all South Africans have affordable broadband access to the Internet'.
If you think that the incoming (post election) government should make broadband roll out a a priority then you should read the draft strategy and… Continue
If you think that the incoming (post election) government should make broadband roll out a a priority then you should read the draft strategy and… Continue
Posted on April 20, 2009 at 9:00am — 2 Comments
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