Ramaphosa petitioned not to sign Copyright Amendment Bill into law

At a media briefing at Constitutional Hill on Tuesday, the coalition's spokesperson Collen Dlamini said if the bill was signed into law it would amount to expropriation of local content without compensation.

"SA creatives will no longer be paid for the content they create. Our writers will stop writing. Our singers will stop signing and our artists will stop drawing. Big global tech companies with access to an abundance of cheap local content will be the winners," Dlamini said. Dlamini said the bill would also fragment the rights in sound recordings, meaning substantial catalogues of recorded music would simply become unusable, ending the revenues they generated for composers, performers, songwriters, publishers and producers alike.

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