Browsing by Author "Masango, Charles A"

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The Future of the First Sale Doctrine with the Advent of Licences to Govern Access to Digital Content
(LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, 2006-12-15) Masango, Charles A
The article examines the origin of copyright and the first sale doctrine. It exposes the advantages that the doctrine confers to the purchasers of copyright works and how it is possible for purchasers to use the doctrine to advance scholarship. The article also examines whether the advantages that the doctrine confers to the purchasers of printed copyright works has been permanently swept away by the introduction of licences by authors to govern access to digital content. Finally, the article looks at content access models being used in the digital environment that may ultimately serve the same function as that played by the first sale doctrine in the previous offline-only, hard-copy environment.
Public lending right: prospects in South Africa's public libraries?
(SA Jnl Libs & Info Sci 2008, 74(1), 2008) Masango, Charles A; Denise Nicholson
This paper examines the origin of the Public Lending Right and the UK Public Lending Right Act 1979. It analyses whether the public lending right (PLR) that exists in some European countries, Canada and Australia may form the basis of establishing a PLR in South Africa's public libraries following a debate by the Academic and Non-Fiction Authors' Association of South Africa (ANFASA) as to whether South African libraries needs to lobby for a PLR. The paper discusses possible obstacles that may inhibit the implementation of a PLR in South Africa's public libraries.