Creative Commons International
South Africa
The South Africa license has now been integrated into the Creative Commons licensing process, so you are able to license your works under this jurisdiction's law.
The latest version of the licenses available for this jurisdiction are:
- Attribution 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa
Many thanks to all who contributed to the license-porting process. This page remains for reference.
Please take a look at the mailing-list archive if you are interested in the academic discussion leading to the South Africa final license.
Creative Commons is working with UCT Intellectual Property Law Research Unit to create South Africa jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses.
CCi South Africa List
Legal Project Lead: Tobias Schonwetter
Public Project Lead: Dave Duarte
Team member: Andrew Rens
- License draft.
- English explanation of substantive legal changes.
- See the project website.
- Subscribe to the discussion.
- Subscribe to the weekly mailing list.
More about the UCT Intellectual Property Law Research Unit
The UCT Intellectual Property Law Research Unit is housed at the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town Law School.
Acknowledgments
Creative Commons South Africa was founded by Heather Ford (public lead), and Andrew Rens (legal lead) and based at the LINK Centre. More details and a retrospective on CC South Africa by Andrew Rens on his blog The LINK Centre is the leading research and training body in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy, regulation and management in Southern Africa.
