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Namibia’s draft copyright and related rights protection bill proposes a major change in how local artists are compensated.<\/em><\/p>\n The government wants to create a safety net for creators by introducing a levy on physical equipment and services used to copy data, including phones, laptops, memory sticks and copy shops.<\/p>\n This is the stage at which the public needs to engage. Once the bill reaches the parliament, opportunities to correct its shortcomings become far more limited.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Namibia’s draft copyright and related rights protection bill proposes a major change in how local artists are compensated. The government wants to create a safety net for creators by introducing a levy on physical equipment and services used to copy data, including phones, laptops, memory sticks and copy shops. This is the stage at which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12760,9309,4706,724,20460,257,254,32942,38708],"class_list":["post-239710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drives","tag-hard","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-net","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparing","tag-taxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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