
Chocolate not so sweet
Navendran “Novi” Naidoo, a rapper from the coastal city of Durban South Africa is making waves in South Africa by claiming that the...

Protection for Oral Literature in Kenya’s Proposed Traditional Knowledge Bill
Discussions around oral literature in Africa in most cases refer to the African cultural tradition of transmitting culture from one...

WTO Extends Drug Patent Exemptions for Least Developed Countries
On 6 November 2015 the World Trade Organisation (WTO) TRIPS Council agreed to extend a waiver already in place in favour of Least...

Revisiting the similarity between perfume and clothing
Determining the similarity between goods in different classes has become a confused area of South African law recently, with a number of...

A draft Copyright Amendment Bill for South Africa
On 27 July 2015 the Department of Trade and Industry published its draft Copyright Amendment Bill for public comment. While there are...