The African Commons Project has launched a campaign to stop and the regulations proposed control research under the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research Act.
The campaign calls for an extension of the time for those concerned (which includes every academic and researcher in South Africa) to comment on the draft. The call which has already met with (partial) success by a brief but significant extension to 29 May 2009.
The African Commons project campaign page enables you to respond with links to the Act, and academic studies across the world of the effect of similar legislation, as well a collaborative drafting process to analyse and respond to the many concerns raised by the regulations. Join the campaign now!
