Music copyright: Just a sample
We write about music copyright cases quite regularly. In this article we discuss the issue of whether copying a very short snippet of a sound...
Rachel Sikwane
Rachel Sikwane is a director at ENSafrica in the intellectual property department. She specialises in trade mark and copyright litigation, domain name disputes, company name objections, ASA disputes as well as passing-off and unlawful competition matters. She also has experience in anti-counterfeiting matters.
Amendments to South African IP exchange control guidelines
In February, in an article on the 2017 South African budget review, we wrote that the government had proposed that companies and individuals no longer...
Copyright: the right to exploit vs the right not to exploit
There’s a lot of interesting copyright in the recent South African judgment of South African Broadcasting Corporation v Via Vollenhoven & Appollis Independent CC and...
Copying music: A stairway to the court room
Two recent high-profile cases involving popular songs have placed the spotlight on copyright issues.
In the first of these, in California, a Los Angeles jury has...
Good news in time for the holidays for internet domain name owners
On 11 December 2015, shortly before the holiday season began, the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services published an amendment to the Alternative Dispute Resolution...
A small cup of copyright – Nespresso Essenza
The recent South African case of Nestle Nespresso S.A. v Secret River Trading cc t/a Caffeluxe Distributors (Western Cape High Court, Judge Davis, 5 October...
