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A Different Ball Game

Readers will have observed from perusing the articles on this blog that I have commented on a number of occasions on the proclaimed intention of the Government to pass legislation curtailing or prohibiting the use of trade marks on tobacco products, both on their packages and in advertising.  I have expressed the view that by […]

Posted in IPStell, Trade Marks Tagged Australia, cost, deprivation, deprive, disaster, expropriation, fire, problem, property, remuneration, smoke, tobacco, trademark, trademarks

Copyright: The Photographers Plight

The Vine Oracle recently chatted to a professional photographer and had occasion to reflect on the treatment meted out to this group by our Copyright law. Apparently freelance photography in South Africa is not the lucrative business it appears to be– quite the contrary. Copyright is supposed to allow creators of original works to make money […]

Posted in Copyright, IPStell Tagged artistic, Copyright, enforcement, photograph, protection, remuneration, rights, work
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