PETITION AGAINST THE SIGNING INTO LAW, THE CURRENT AMENDMENTS TO THE COPYRIGHT ACT No. 98 of 1978 BY HONORABLE PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA.

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#3802

I am signing because I am totally opposed to this ill-concerned legislation which deprive creative individuals of their endeavours and their income.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3805

The long term implications will be a stagnation of knowledge
Very little new knowledge will be published

(Brackenfell, 2019-03-28)

#3812

I am signing because I am an author and publisher and I know how important it is for my work to be protected so I can have a say in how I want my work to be used by the public. Without that freedom, my future as a writer is doomed!

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3815

Writers and artists need to be compensated fairly for their work.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3816

I'm a creative and I strongly relate to this issue. That is my reason for signing.

(JHB, 2019-03-28)

#3818

I work more than 40 hours a week, and earn less than 50 thousand rand a year as a full time working writer. It is one of the few occupations available to me to earn money, due to being disabled. It is actually a very popular employment option for disabled people, and I am far from the only disabled member of my local writing group. I find it disgraceful that the South African government wants me to earn even less by this policy. I had believed the government was trying to improve this country's unemployment problem and address low income. But this policy is doing the exact opposite. Apparently, even work that some disabled people can do, is being demonetised. It makes me question, deeply, if South Africa's government actually cares about its country's economy and the lack of jobs available, especially for people with special needs. I fail to understand how the people of South Africa will benefit by destroying yet another industry, and increasing low income and unemployment numbers. The South African government's track record in the empowerment and care of the disabled community is already under great scrutiny. To put this policy in place, is just another insult to some of the most vulnerable people in South Africa's population, forcing more disabled people to be dependant on others. Everyone should be allowed to try to live as independently as they can. Writers and artists, disabled or otherwise, should not have to beg to be paid fairly for the long hard hours they put in to make an honest living. Disabled adults are not children. We do not need to be talked down to. We have a right to work if we can. The fact that this policy puts at risk one of the most accessible occupations available to the disabled community is a disgrace.

(Mossel Bay, 2019-03-28)

#3821

It is a ridiculous idea and takes food off the table. Is the President in favour of hard work without compensation?

(Paarl, 2019-03-28)

#3823

I'm signing the petition because I am an author of two Hospitality textbooks and have worked very hard and put in many hours to write these books

(Stellenbosch, 2019-03-28)

#3825

More thought ,application and implications to the changes are required

(Melkbos, 2019-03-28)

#3829

People have a right to copyright and protect their work.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3839

I create images, objects and written work. What I create is intellectual property. I reserve my rights to copyright my work to its full extent and into the future and in perpetuity for my beneficiaries and descendants alone. I reserve the right for my self, beneficiaries and decedents to claim monetary compensation in perpetuity for any violation of the copyrights on any and all of my work.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3843

This will destroy the livelihood and academic value of writers in particular.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3844

I stringly believe that this will be detrimental to the publishing act

(Eversdal, 2019-03-28)

#3846

Creating content is my job.

(Douglasdale, 2019-03-28)

#3848

It's the right thing to do.

(Stellenbosch, 2019-03-28)

#3849

I am an author

(Pretoria, 2019-03-28)

#3850

I'm signing because I am an author whose life will be greatly effected by the new law - in a negative way.

(Paarl, 2019-03-28)

#3851

I am an actor. Financial liberation in our lifetime.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3852

I will lose my ability to work, my livelihood and more important, my access to any creative medium as all of my friends and other authors, artists, musicians, actors will not create books, art, music or cinema/TV/theatre as they will not be able to own the right to their property and will not share it because this corrupt country does not want to develop and nurture this industry.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3853

I'm looking after my interest as a composer and content creator

(JOHANNESBURG, 2019-03-28)

#3854

I support our writers and their rights

(Bloemfontein, 2019-03-28)

#3863

I am a writer

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3870

I am signing because this bill take away the livelihood of writers and other creators.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3872

I'm signing because I think the bill is unjust and counterproductive to our quest to create financial self-sufficiency.

(Jabulani, 2019-03-28)

#3876

We as creators.should have copyright

(Cape Tow, 2019-03-28)

#3889

I don't want a digital colonization of our Intellectual Property by the likes of Google. The fair use provisions of this Bill will set us back as a country. Vuka Mzansi!! Vuka

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3890

I'm signing because I am protecting not only my own intellectual property but also the rights and property of others authors who have collaborated with me.

(Pretoria, 2019-03-28)

#3895

The draft is theft.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3897

South African creators have a right to protect their copyright and be paid for their work.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3899

This bill is simply immoral.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3901

IP like Land Rights are the norm in first world countries.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3903

I'm signing because I think it is important to protect the original works of south African creatives.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3906

I am a content creator and am concerned about my future rights , career and earnings potential if the bill as it stands is not ammended.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3910

This will be disastrous and lead to the end of the local publishing industry. Artists, content creators will find it near impossible to make a living.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3911

I stand for the rights of the creatives in South Africa. I am not afraid to show it

(Centurion, 2019-03-28)

#3912

I am an author who works hard to create knowledge. I need to be enabled to continue creating - doing research and finding time to write can only done with resources.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3913

Content creators have a right to earn a living through their work. You cannot allow the product of their imagination and their labour to be stolen.

(Kleinmond, 2019-03-28)

#3914

I support artists and their right to be compensate fairly for their work

(Centurion, 2019-03-28)

#3915

I am a writer and so are a lot of my friends

(bellville, 2019-03-28)

#3920

I'm signing because the bill erodes the copyright I hold when writing academic textbooks.

(Pretoria, 2019-03-28)

#3922

I am a writer. I am against this proposed law.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3925

I am a song writer and many of my friends make a living out of creative writing, arts etc. This will literally take food of their plates

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3926

Let's say you are a great jam-maker, and you support your family by making jam that's really delicious. And government passes legislation saying that anyone who wants can come by your house and help themselves to your jam without paying you. And that they can take your jam recipes even if that's all you've got to leave your children. And that they can then resell the jam they have taken from you for free and pocket the money they make in the process. Simply because you dared to create it in the first place. Artists and writers are NOT hobbyists whose work can be splashed around because "culture should be free". We don't usually earn a lot from copyright, but it's something. It helps. For textbook writers who genuinely use this income to pay their mortgage, this is a road straight to penury, and for the SA publishing industry, already staggering financially, it is disastrous. Educational publishing (which cross-subsidizes most other publishing) will collapse.

(3610, 2019-03-28)

#3936

I am concerned about the protection of the rights of creative artists.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3938

Because I am strongly against this Bill.
If the president signs it we must challenge it in the Constitution Court

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3939

Copyright does not mean a right to copy! It means protection from copying. The ANC, to their utter criminally-ignorant shame, simply don't get this.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3942

I'm signing because this law is unjust, and dramatically affects the ability of writers and artists to make a living from their work

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3951

I am a music producer.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3953

I'm a reader who supports authors and the law should, too.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3956

I am a writer and an educationalist. I can see how this will damage the publishing/writing community for only small gains in education. I stand against it.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3961

I'm signing because I publish content regularly and it forms part of my business functioning. The new Act could cripple my business

(Magaliesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3962

I'm signing this petition because I am deeply concerned that it does not sufficiently protect the rights of writers, scholars and creative artists who arevtrying to make a living from their work.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3963

I disagree with the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act.

(Bloemfontein, 2019-03-28)

#3964

I'm a writer and have only recently moved into the sale of my short stories and now, a novel. This bill would hurt me on multiple fronts, harming my right to control what happens to the work I produce without fear of plagiarism from outside individuals. This law, in its current state will severely diminish the possibility that I could draw an income from my work as there little to no guarantee of protection without resorting to the courts. No independent writer has that kind of money. All I ask is that my work receive ironclad protection under the law so I can write without wondering who will be stealing it.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3966

All authors of any kind must be offered adequate protection on their IP and all Copyrights.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3967

i believe as a creative, the wealth i bring through my creation has to be appreciated, by the lawmakers.

(joburg, 2019-03-28)

#3970

I'm signing because the whole publishing industry could implode if this act were to go through, especially at a time when such strong African voices are being heard in book form, depriving these authors of what would be their livelihood.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3972

I believe that artist must be treated with respect and fairness and must be paid what is rightfully theirs

(Pretoria, 2019-03-28)

#3975

This is totally and outright theft from all writers . Do not sign this bill!

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3982

This Bill sounds terrible because it seems to sellout South African creators (writers, musicians, journalists, etc.) not just today but for decades to come. Remember who you represent before you sign this Bill into law.

(Kanehsatake Mohawk Terr., 2019-03-28)

#3983

I create content as part of my living, this bill restricts my right to provide for my family and is just plain facist.

(Midrand, 2019-03-28)

#3985

I’m signing because this law is ridiculous. You don’t even own the properties you want to license. It’s an appalling attempt to rob South Africans of the freedoms the rest of the world enjoys unless we line your pockets. You should be ashamed.

(Johannesburg, 2019-03-28)

#3990

The amendments to this Bill do not protect the rights of content creators namely, Authors, Scriptwriters, Music Composers, Fine artists, Designers, Songwriters, essentially anyone who has created an idea and this impacts our Heritage, Culture and the ultimate identity of our country. The South African creative Industry is at stake.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3991

I am signing because I am concerned about the quality of the material which will be used. Most writers will be employees of the education department without expert skills unless this is an open market.

(Cape Town, 2019-03-28)

#3999

It affects me as a creative and does not protect my work

(Durban, 2019-03-28)