Monthly Archives: August 2010

Wednesday, 15th September 2010 at the Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town On 15th September 2010, the UCT Intellectual Property Law & Policy Research Unit is going to co-host, together with the DTI and the USPTO, the non-profit PIPRA, a 1-day workshop on IP, … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 14th September 2010 at the Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town A 1-day, high-level overview of IP strategy designed for executives from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).  The event is co-organized by the University of Cape Town‘s IP Law and Policy Research … Continue reading →

On 2 August 2010, the Department of Science in Technology announced the Proclamation of the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, 51 of 2008 (Published in the Government Gazette Vol.541  No.33422 on 30 July 2010) and … Continue reading →

On the last day of this year’s Cape Town Book Fair, the IP Law & Policy Research Unit’s Dr Tobias Schonwetter spoke about the potential benefits of Creative Commons (CC) licensing for copyrights holders of creative materials at the Copyright … Continue reading →

Last weekend, the book Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright (ISBN:978-1-91989-545-1) was launched at the 2010 Cape Town Book Fair. The book is the result of an international and interdisciplinary research project known as the African Copyright … Continue reading →