Reggie Manyakara
latest news & developmentsLawful Parody?
The case between Laugh It Off and South African Breweries pitted freedom of expression against intellectual property rights in the Constitutional Court. Reggie Manyakara outlines…
A Copyright Alternative?
Is Creative Commons a viable alternative to copyright? Stanford University Professor of Law, Lawrence Lessig, proposed the idea of Creative Commons in 2001, and it has since been…
Truth or Equality?
The draft "prohibition of hate speech" bill has Reggie Manyakara arguing that the right to equality wins out against the right to freedom of expression.
Office Politics
The threat of journalists’ eviction from their offices in parliament has blown over for now, but it could easily have become a matter for the courts. Reggie Manyakara explains…