This report summarizes research on the perceptions of South African documentary filmmakers about copyright clearance requirements and the effect of such requirements on their work. This work was performed in the context of a larger project exploring how lessons learned from “best practices” projects with documentary filmmakers in the U.S. can help their counterparts in other countries identify and overcome barriers to effective filmmaking posed by escalating copyright clearance requirements.
This paper briefly examines the current regime of copyright law in Morocco and seeks to examine the status of orphan works in Morocco, in lieu its membership as the sole African country in the recently signed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The paper concludes that Morocco can, and ought to, enact exceptions and limitations that facilitate meaningful access to orphan works in both analogue and digital formats.
"Der für Verfassungsfragen zuständige Oberste Gerichtshof der USA, der Supreme Court, hat in einer Grundsatzentscheidung die Position von Rechteinhabern gestärkt. Mit 6 zu 2 Stimmen entschieden die Richter, dass in den USA frei verfügbare Werke (vor allem aus dem Ausland) nachträglich unter den Schutz des Urheberrechts gestellt werden dürfen, wenn die Schutzfrist nicht abgelaufen ist."
