Human rights organisation Section27, representing BlindSA, has filed an urgent application in the Constitutional Court against President Cyril Ramaphosa for failing to sign the CopyrightBlindSA had challenged the constitutionality of the Act for infringing on the rights of blind and visually impaired persons two years ago.
The court ruled in Favour of BlindSA and ordered Parliament to amend the act by the 21st of September this year. The Act required persons who are blind or visually impaired to obtain the consent of the copyright holder before being able to convert books and other published works into formats they can read.The court crafted an exception to copyright for persons who are blind and visually impaired, which was to be immediately read into the Act as an interim remedy while Parliament did its work.
According to a statement released by Section27, parliament has taken necessary steps to fix the defects in the Act through draft legislation called the Copyright Amendment Bill. It says both Houses of Parliament have approved the bill and sent it to the President for signing. The statement further declares that the court-ordered deadline has expired and that the President has “failed in his duty to act diligently and without delay in terms of signing the bill.” Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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