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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2005-06-01
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| Series: | SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society |
| Online Access: | http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/vol2-2/folklore.asp |
| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-2567 |