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Under more information about limitations and exceptions to copyright add section titled Case Studies: Case studies provide valuable information relating to the state of affairs in various countries, as well as the opposing views when debating copyright issues.

• South Africa: a case study of politics and the global economics of limitations and exceptions to copyright. The current debate in South Africa regarding proposed amendments to the Copyright Bill allows showcases the different sides of the debate, and how legal frameworks, e.g. the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa also informs decision making.

1. US Government Threatening To Kill Free Trade With South Africa After Hollywood Complained It Was Adopting American Fair Use Principles, by Mike Masnick, 4 November 2019.
2. South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill – one year on, by Denise Nicholson, 30 March 2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
3. South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill Returned to Parliament for Further Consideration, Mike Palmedo, 22 June 2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
4. See the light and pass the Copyright Amendment Bill, by Mugwena Maluleke, Tebogo Sithathu, Jack Devnarain, Tusi Fokane, Ben Cashdan and Jace Nair, 24 June 2020. © Mail & Guardian Online.
5. South African President’s Reservations to Copyright Bill Not Supported by Law, by Sean Flynn, 13 July 2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

For a comprehensive list of materials relating to the South African Copyright Amendment Bill processes, see Copyright and Related Issues: USTR GSP trade threats re: Bill, list compiled and amended by Denis Nicholson

Lancet, T. (2020). COVID-19: The worst may be yet to come. The Lancet, 396(10244), 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31517-8

Stickings, T. (2020, June 10). Secondary schools resume in Spain, Netherlands and South Africa. Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8406723/Secondary-schools-resume-Spain-Netherlands-South-Africa.html

Africa Health Research Institute. (2020, May 25). "New work from AHRI about the effect of the Level 5 #Covid19SA lockdown on access to healthcare has found a largely resilient primary healthcare system in rural KZN among adults, but some early warning signs for child health. https://ahri.org/new-covid-19-lockdown-study-shows-drop-in-child-health-visits-but-resilience-of-hiv-care-systems-in-rural-kzn/ @kznhealth" Twitter. https://twitter.com/AHRI_News/status/1264880940482007040

Siedner, M. J., Kraemer, J. D., Meyer, M. J., Harling, G., Mngomezulu, T., Gabela, P., Dlamini, S., Gareta, D., Majozi, N., Ngwenya, N., Reynolds, Z., Seeley, J., Wong, E., Iwuji, C., Shahmanesh, M., Hanekom, W., & Herbst, K. (2020). Access to primary healthcare during lockdown measures for COVID-19 in rural South Africa: A longitudinal cohort study [Preprint]. Health Systems and Quality Improvement. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.15.20103226

Natalie E. Dean, PhD on Twitter

Wells, C. R., Stearns, J. K., Lutumba, P., & Galvani, A. P. (2020). COVID-19 on the African continent. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30374-1

Picturing Health. Films about coronavirus (COVID-19). picturinghealth.org/coronavirus-films/

I think contextualizing Creative Commons material as a component in global justice and thinking of fair distribution of resources and knowledge as an antidote to imperialism is a provocative concept.This blog, infojusticeorg offers perspectives on social justice and Creative Commons by many authors.