Ramaphosa petitioned not to sign Copyright Amendment Bill into law
Channel: F5 News
Date: 16/04/2019

Ramaphosa petitioned not to sign Copyright Amendment Bill into law.

The Coalition for Effective Copyright has petitioned President Cyril Ramaphosa not to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill into law. 
At a media briefing at Constitutional Hill on Tuesday, the coalition's spokesperson Collen Dlamini said if the bill was signed into law it would amount to expropriation of local content without compensation.
"SA creatives will no longer be paid for the content they create. Our writers will stop writing. Our singers will stop signing and our artists will stop drawing. Big global tech companies with access to an abundance of cheap local content will be the winners," Dlamini said.
Dlamini said the bill would also fragment the rights in sound recordings, meaning substantial catalogues of recorded music would simply become unusable, ending the revenues they generated for composers, performers, songwriters, publishers and producers alike.
The coalition comprises writers, book and music publishers, film directors, producers, musicians, performing artists, film and television workers, content creators and business people.
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