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9 December 2021CopyrightMariëtte du Plessis, Simon Brown, Nicky Garnett and Nthabiseng Phaswana

Developing an effective Africa IP plan

Can Africa in 2021 still be compared to the 1966 Spaghetti Western, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”? And, if so, where do we find these attributes in the various national and regional intellectual property (IP) regimes?

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