Duty LXD-0504
Trains models, in South Africa
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Cybercrimes Act, unlawful access and unlawful interception of datasince 3 lines
Cybercrimes Act 19 of 2020, ss. 2 (unlawful access) and 3 (unlawful interception of data) · Read the law's page
- Do not unlawfully and intentionally access a computer system or data storage medium.
- Do not unlawfully and intentionally intercept data, or possess data known or reasonably suspected to have been unlawfully intercepted, without a satisfactory exculpatory account.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to violate these sections.
Copyright Amendment Bill, general fair use exceptionproposed2 lines
Copyright Amendment Bill, 2017 (B13-2017), s. 12A (general exception from copyright protection) · Read the law's page
- You would be able to make fair use of a work without infringing copyright for purposes including research, private study, criticism, review, reporting current events, scholarship, teaching, education, parody and library and archive preservation; this open-ended exception would reach aggregation and text-and-data-mining more broadly than the current closed list.
- Attribute the source and author, and expect fair use to be assessed against four factors: the nature of the work, the amount used, the purpose and commercial character of the use, and the effect on the potential market for the work.