31579 (May 17, 2023) To the Trade Policy Staff Committee: The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments in response to the May 17, 2023, request for public comments by the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Implementation Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff Committee, chaired by the Office of the U. [...] These basic protections should include the right of copyright owners to control the distribution of copies of their works and sound recordings, and to control the manner in which their works and sound recordings are communicated to the public. [...] The National Assembly concurred with the President’s assessment that the bills were processed incorrectly under the Constitution and recommended that the bills be referred to the Joint Tagging Mechanism Committee to re-tag the bills for processing under the proper constitutional provision (Section 76), which requires the provincial governments to consider the bills as well. [...] The bills are currently under consideration by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) where the majority of provinces must approve for the revised bills to go back to the National Assembly before being transmitted to the President for 25 South Africa’s Cabinet has approved the country’s accession to the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) (collectively. [...] At a time when South Africa’s economy must rebound from the economic impacts of the global pandemic, the stakes are extremely high for the Parliament to redraft these bills to avoid destabilizing the creative industries and to support a thriving copyright sector, which contributes so significantly to economic and job growth in the country, and which has potential for substantial growth under the p.
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