[Solar-general] Fwd: [CopySouth] Activist held for 'violating copyright law'

[Diego Saravia]

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
acs3 en kent.ac.uk
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.

Click here for the full story.

Cheers

Colin







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