The Protection of Expressions of Folklore Through the Bill of Rights in South Africa

This paper uses the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 and the jurisprudence that has developed in the course of its application to demonstrate that a human rights framework for the protection of expressions of folklore is a viable, or relatively better, framewor...

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Main Author: E.S. Nwauche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2005-06-01
Series:SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society
Online Access:http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/vol2-2/folklore.asp
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Summary:This paper uses the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 and the jurisprudence that has developed in the course of its application to demonstrate that a human rights framework for the protection of expressions of folklore is a viable, or relatively better, framework than protection through existing intellectual property and sui generis regimes.
ISSN:1744-2567