Filmmaking is a complex collaborative endeavour, giving rise to many different layers of production, including the script or screenplay, the soundtrack, the direction, and the performances. Here we have a look at what every filmmaker should know about the intellectual property of film...
In the midst of the planetary emergency of climate change, Covid-19 is testing modern civilisation's preparedness for shocks, across the spheres of finance, economics and technology; global, national and regional governance; global and population health; social cohesion and food security. This is according to Baker McKenzie's new report, Unprecedented: Converging Crises...
Wildu du Plessis 6 Jan 2021
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2020 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views. Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Legal site over the past year below...
The South African (SA) sound broadcasting industry has been waiting patiently for legislative developments regarding the switchover from analogue broadcasting to digital sound broadcasting (DSB)...
Peter Grealy, Nozipho Mngomezulu, Wendy Tembedza, Karl Blom, and Ziyanda Ngcobo 24 Nov 2020
In a recent decision by the Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) against FlySafair, the board found that compliance with Covid-19 regulations extends to "make-believe" marketing initiatives such as advertisements or commercials...
Ziyanda Ngcobo 5 Nov 2020
SABC's licensing proposal involving Netflix, MultiChoice and DStv is the subject of some quite passionate debate and controversy. Measures are widely seen as a desperate attempt to address the SABC's dire financial plight without addressing the reasons that created it in the first place...
Ian Jacobsberg 29 Oct 2020
Congratulations to the SME companies who have won full-page BizListing entries in Bizcommunity's business directory...
Bizcommunity.com 26 Oct 2020
The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) released a White Paper containing a framework for the provision of audio and audio-visual content services on 9 October 2020. The DCDT invites interested parties to comment on the proposals outlined in the White Paper by 30 November 2020...
Peter Grealy, Nozipho Mngomezulu, Karl Blom and Wendy Tembedza 20 Oct 2020
Understanding and reviewing Case Law is an important aspect of the administration of justice and upholding of the Rule of Law...
LexisNexis 28 Sep 2020
Civil society organisations have made court submissions on both sides of the debate...
Tania Broughton 16 Sep 2020
The short answer is "no...and yes". Here's the long answer...
Tammi Pretorius 15 Sep 2020
The Vaal University of Technology (VUT) has succeeded in implementing an uplifting and exciting initiative - a law clinic situated at the VUT Southern Gauteng Science and Technology Park (VUT SGSTP) in Sebokeng...
Nontobeko Zondi, Vaal University of Technology 19 Aug 2020
The draft Films and Publications Amendment Regulations 2020 (Regulations) which were recently published for public comment in South Africa, have significant implications for online distributors in their current form. The Regulations apply to the sale, hiring and streaming of content on various digital platforms in South Africa...
Janet MacKenzie and Reinhardt Biermann 30 Jul 2020
New technologies are providing marketers with the ability to receive sensory feedback, which could be used to interpret emotional responses to marketing stimuli. Such systems broadly fall into private and public systems, both of which influence their legal interpretation...
Ashlin Perumall 24 Jul 2020
Legal Trends 2021
