Outrageous! CopySouth was one of the groups that got behind Prof. Potel of Argentina last year when he was arrested and changed criminally with for copyright infringement. The full story is here: http://copysouth.org/portal/node/3 http://copysouth.org/portal/node/4 The charges were dropped in the end ....and in part because so many people and groups like us said " oh no you don't!" Any one interested in forming up a little action/ online petition group to say the same thing about this South African case? It shows, among other things, shows how copyright can be used as a tool of censorship. One of the best known UK copyright cases, the 1972 case of Hubbard v. Vosper involved the head of Scientology, the now deceased Ron Hubbard, trying ---and failing --- to use copyright to silence a critic, Cyril Vosper. Read more here: http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/vosper.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Vosper Best Alan Alan Story Senior Lecturer, Intellectual Property Law Kent Law School University of Kent Canterbury Kent United Kingdom CT2 7NS [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)1227 823316 "I have my principles, but if you don't like those, I have others." Hi everyone. Here is a link to a local southern African news story about the use of so-called "copyright law" apparently to intimidate political activists. I wonder how many copies he was making?
A Swazi Youth activist was arrested by a plain clothes police officer for reprinting an article from City Press, the Times of Swaziland reported on Wednesday. Sibusiso Mhlanga, a member of the banned Swaziland Youth Congress (Swayoco), was arrested after a plain clothes officer saw him request photocopies of a City Press article in Manzini. A police spokeswoman said he would be charged for violating copyright law.
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