Our priorities were opposing a new exception for computational data analysis enabling AI training and development, recommending the narrowing of overbroad exceptions for education, cultural institutions, private copy and fair dealing to ensure compliance with international treaties, proposing measures to strengthen enforcement and appropriate governance of collective management.
IPA also filed a submission to a full review of Zambia’s copyright act. IPA opposed overboard exceptions for TDM, libraries, archives, education and research institutions, and e-lending. Other matters of concern are an obligation to license through collective management which completely undermines contractual freedom and is subject to a new State-owned agency, with distributions channeled to public purposes rather than to rightsholders. IPA also made recommendations to ensure that provisions on the right of distribution and its exhaustion, the right of communication to the public and copyrightability requirements are compliant with international copyright treaties.