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Needletime - 2002

To Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry (11 February 2002)

Notwithstanding the representations by the NAB and other stakeholders, the Portfolio Committee has elected to proceed with the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act and the Performers’ Protection Act. The NAB respects the decision of the Portfolio Committee. However, various issues raised by the NAB appear not to have been addressed while additional amendments have also been introduced which stakeholders have not had the opportunity to comment on. The NAB wishes to ensure that the proposed amendments achieve their objectives without resulting in unnecessarily detrimental and unjustifiable consequences for various stakeholders.
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Portfolio committee approves needletime legislation

Parliament’s portfolio committee on trade and industry has approved the copyright amendment bill and will shortly approve the performers protection amendment bill. These bills seek to introduce needletime. The bills provide a framework for needletime and do not specify what the needletime rate will be. Most of the detail regarding the implementation of needletime is likely to be contained in regulations. More