The Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill, 2017

The Draft Copyright Amendment Bill of 2015 aimed to revise both the Copyright Act and the Performers’ Protection Act to protect performers’ rights.

In 2017, two separate bills were published for commentary: The Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill and the revised Copyright Amendment Bill.

PASA submitted commentary on the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill, stating that its interest in the Bill is largely limited to items which it expects will have equivalents in the Copyright Amendment Bill, once it is introduced. The submission therefore focuses on three topics:

• The need for South Africa to become a party to international treaties on copyright and, by extension, performers’ rights
• Strengthening the rights of authors and publishers and, by extension, performers, in accordance with international norms
• Miscellaneous points on the conceptualisation and drafting of the Bill.

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