New Draft Traditional Knowledge Bill Published In South Africa 10/04/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)An alternative South African bill on the protection of traditional knowledge has been published in the official Government Gazette, and it would create a new system of intellectual property right specific to TK, according to South Africa experts. The full text of the bill is available here [pdf]. “This Bill is based on the Protection of TK Bill drafted by the incumbent of the Stellenbosch Chair of IP Law (CIP), Prof Owen Dean, and was tabled in Parliament by Dr Wilmot James earlier this year amid widespread and serious criticism of Government’s current attempt at protecting TK through the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill (the old TK Bill),” Prof. Cobus Jooste of Stellenbosch Universiity said in a blog post. “Wilmot’s Bill will establish a bespoke TK system, customised to the unique and widely divergent demographic of the South African population and capable of actually protecting TK and financially benefitting the indigenous communities from whence it hails,” Jooste wrote. “”n addition, Wilmot’s Bill proposes a sui generis approach to protection of sui generis expressions of intellectual endeavour.” A fuller explanation of the bill was recently published in the Intellectual Property Watch Inside Views column here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "New Draft Traditional Knowledge Bill Published In South Africa" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Caroline B Ncube says 01/05/2013 at 8:13 am Several comments have been submitted to parliament since the call for comments was published. My own comments are available here http://www.academia.edu/3351706/COMMENTS_TO_PARLIAMENT_ON_THE_DRAFT_PROTECTION_OF_TRADITIONAL_KNOWLEDGE_BILL Reply
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