RESOURCES
- Freedom To Innovate South Africa (FTISA)
- Creative Commons International
- Creative Commons South Africa
- Creative Commons Licences
- Philip Schmidt's blog
- Eve Gray's blog
- Opening Scholarship blog
- Cape Town Declaration
- Access South Africa
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- FAQs
stamp out book fencing!!!!
We all know its a big problem in South Africa. Hijacking, theft, even murder by book gangs who make millions re-selling blood novels. That is why South African authorities have added “books” to the list of second hand goods subject to stringent regulation intended to prevent the sale of stolen goods.
Barry Ronge has written an excellent article about the proposal to add books to the list.
It might of course make more sense just to ban books altogether, after all people might read them and start thinking, a process which the proponents of this change clearly don’t believe in.