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The African Copyright & Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) Project is probing the relationship between national copyright environments and access to learning materials in African countries. The project is probing this relationship within an access to knowledge (A2K) framework - a framework which regards the protection/promotion of user access as one of the central objectives of copyright law.

 

This project, supported by Canada's IDRC and South Africa's Shuttleworth Foundation, and managed by the LINK Centre at the Wits University Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM) in Johannesburg, currrently has research nodes in eight African countries: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda.

 

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SA Intellectual Property Amendment Bill (Traditional Knowledge) - Going Ahead Regardless?
01 March 2010 18:17
     In November 2004, the Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Policy was adopted in South Africa. In May 2008, the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) published the...

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