Digital Rights

South African Book Development CouncilDigital Technologies Summit18-19 March 2015

Digital rights

ChallengesClosed business modelsLegislative reformCopyright implications of closed business modelsSWOT

REPROGRAPHICS

• Single copy – serve many simultaneously• Unlimited copies limited time investment• No loss of quality• No geographical constraints

– copies may be downloaded by several people from different locations

– Use of works not restrained by physical locality: works on the Internet can be simultaneously read by millions of people.

• Time & place of copying undeterminable

CLOSED SYSTEM OF CONTENT PROVISION“A business method for providing e-content” ZA 2014/04226

• Substantial reduction on transaction cost - no bookshop - 1 invoice to UJ

• Internal verification systems• All students get the e-books

(no need for fair dealing)• Second-hand book market -

virtually eliminated• Increase in reprographic

income - controlled

COPYRIGHT REFORM

• WCT; Marrakesh• New digital rights – communication and

making available• Fair dealing expansion• TPMs not to counter fair dealing• Visually impaired

LEGISLATIVE REFORM

Focus is on:

• Digital rights

• Digital access

• Code•Format shifts

•Enforcement• Private use

• Technology• Closed system -

verify• Extend to other

disabilities visually impaired

• Fundamental rights

• National Policies – OERS; One book; IP

R&D• Fair dealing

• Open publishing

• New copyright rights• Technological means -

new• distribution • TPMs• Fundamental rights S W

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CLOSED SYSTEM OF CONTENT PROVISION“A business method for providing e-content” ZA 2014/04226

• Substantial reduction on transaction cost - no bookshop - 1 invoice to UJ – 3rd party agreement

• Internal verification systems• All students get the e-books

(no need for fair dealing)• Second-hand book market -

virtually eliminated• Increase in reprographic

income - controlled

CONCLUSIONS

• Rationale copyright local context• Instrument economic and public policy:

– Compensate author– Incentivise creativity– Investment in addition creative outputs– Knowledge generation

• Balancing act• Opportunities to implement