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Wits Institutional Repository (WIReDSpace): Authors' Rights

This Guide provides information and resources about institutional repositories and Wits Institutional Repository on DSpace (WIREDSPACE). It provides guidelines on depositing in and accessing material from WIREDSPACE, as well as OA and OER Resources.

Authors' Exclusive Rights in SA Copyright Law

Authors and creators have these exclusive rights in terms of the SA Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978 (as amended):-

  • To reproduce the work in any manner or form;
  • To publish the work if it has not been published before;
  • To perform the work in public; To broadcast the work;
  • To cause the work to be transmitted in a diffusion service;
  • To make an adaptation of the work

(These activities also apply to adaptations)

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