Re-interrogating the application of the transitional provisions of South African copyright law to pre-1979 works

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dc.contributor.advisor Job, Chris
dc.contributor.postgraduate van Tonder, Liani
dc.date.accessioned 2020-02-21T12:28:05Z
dc.date.available 2020-02-21T12:28:05Z
dc.date.created 2020-04-09
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2020. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract This dissertation is animated by an interest in the investigation required to establish whether a specific work, be it a literary work, artistic work or published edition, created prior to the enactment of the current South African Copyright Act 98 of 1978, is eligible for copyright protection today. The main objective is to outline the historical development of the transitional provisions provided in South African copyright legislation and the approach adopted by our courts when applying them. This study aims to re-interrogate the application of the transitional provisions to pre-1979 works with a specific focus on the re-evaluation of the opinion and approach set forth by O.H. Dean in the year 1988, regarding the application of the transitional provisions and how the courts should go about implementing these provisions. This re-interrogation requires investigating which provisions should be considered in establishing whether pre-1979 works are presently eligible for copyright protection, in what context and manner those provisions are applicable and how our courts have, in reported case law, gone about implementing them. In order to conduct the aforementioned investigation, the provisions should first be placed in their historical context, which requires tracing the historical development and impact of the copyright transitional provisions first provided in the 1916 Act, to those presently provided in the 1978 Act. en_ZA
dc.description.availability Unrestricted en_ZA
dc.description.degree LLM en_ZA
dc.description.department Private Law en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation van Tonder, L 2020, Re-interrogating the application of the transitional provisions of South African copyright law to pre-1979 works, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73477> en_ZA
dc.identifier.other A2020
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73477
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher University of Pretoria
dc.rights © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subject South African Copyright Law en_ZA
dc.subject UCTD
dc.title Re-interrogating the application of the transitional provisions of South African copyright law to pre-1979 works en_ZA
dc.type Mini Dissertation en_ZA


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