Postgraduate Research Supervision

I supervise postgraduate research on various aspects of intellectual property, technology and the Internet. The following dissertations have been completed under my supervision or co-supervision:

2023

• Lechaba, Refilwe ‘Access to affordable pharmaceutical products and the interplay between patents and public health’ LLM
• Kwofie Karl ‘The application of copyright law in dealing with digital sampling’ LLM
• Kok, Lucinda ‘The scope of the adaptation right in South African copyright law’ LLM 

2022

• Du Preez, Kiara ‘Music and the originality requirement under copyright law’ LLM
• Mayesa, Mzimasi ‘Copyright in the music industry: The protection of artists’ rights against exploitation in South Africa’ LLM

2021

• Zondi, Nokwanda ‘A dissection of the Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Act 6 of 2019: Substantive issues and foreseeable consequences for the creative industries in South Africa‘ LLM

Research Projects

• (funded by Coimbra Group/KU Leuven Postdoctoral Scholarship 2021)  Fair use v Fair dealing in Africa: The South Africa experience
• (as part of the Right to Research in International Copyright project supported by the Arcadia Foundation, 2021-2022) Government role in realizing the right to research in Africa
• (with Dr Desmond Oriakhogba) Multi-territorial digital copyright licensing
  within the AfCFTA (Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) project:
  2020).
• (for Queen Elizabeth Scholars) Gender equality in South Africa’s creative
  sector through the regulation of collective management organisations
  (2019)