In February 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released the report “Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy: Context and Direction for Economic Research”, ...

In general, WIPO strives to operate based on consensus and one or a few members can often block progress. But the rules of operation for WIPO actually allow for votes and majority rule. There is a ...

The National Assembly voted for the Copyright Amendment Bill in 2024 amid some intense opposition. The President, instead of signing the Bill into law, invoked his presidential prerogative in terms of ...

Although other WIPO Committees, primarily through the Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE), work on IP enforcement capacity building, the issue has not been adopted into the CDIP’s work. Thus, the ...

The reason for Blind SA’s application to the Constitutional Court was a direct result of the President’s failure to do ...

On 7 May 2025, the Constitutional Court of South Africa handed down judgment in Blind SA v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others [2025] ZACC 9 (‘Blind SA II’). The judgment read-in an ...

Significantly, the summary is silent on copyright exceptions and limitations. In 2022, a draft of the UK’s proposed text for the IP chapter was leaked. The language concerning copyright exceptions and ...

As WIPO’s Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) prepares to meet for its 34th session this May, an important question is back on the table: Are we doing enough to support access to ...