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The Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, has declared that the Copyright Act of 1978 is invalid for violating their rights.

The court, meanwhile, declared that the current Copyright Act was invalid and unconstitutional because it limited or prevented people with visual disabilities from accessing works under copyright in formats that they could read.

BlindSA and Section 27 will soon be applying to the Constitutional Court to confirm this order, after the case was heard on an unopposed basis. “The current Copyright Act has resulted in a book famine for people with visual disabilities, but this will be rectified by the proposed section 19D from the Copyright Amendment Bill, which would allow exceptions to copyright for people with disabilities,” Chaskalson said.

 

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