The Constitutional Court has come to the aid of blind and visually impaired people. On Friday the court handed down an interim order which again gives them legal protection to convert copyright protected works into accessible formats without having to obtain permission.
On Friday the court handed down an interim order which again gives them legal protection to convert copyright protected works into accessible formats without having to obtain permission.It said it deemed a further “reading in” to the existing Copyright Act – again entrenching the rights of visually impaired people – as being “just and equitable relief”.
But it suspended the declaration of invalidity for two years to give Parliament time to remedy the defects through the introduction of a new Copyright Amendment Bill . The “reading in” then lapsed. And the protections given to blind and visually impaired people fell away.Zeenat Sujee, attorney at SECTION27, said in her affidavit in that application, which was argued last month, that their clients needed urgent relief.
She said even if that ruling was made quickly, the bill could be referred back to the National Assembly in a process which could take as long as four years.
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