| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Jonathan S Smith | I am of the considered opinion that the proposed regulations shall have an immediate restrictive and negative affect upon research, academic freedom and social development within South Africa. Such impact will also mean that our credibility as a social- and humanitarian- state shall suffer within the international community.
Freedom within the arena or academic research and expression must remain one of our most treasured objectives in South Africa. |
| 52 | Eve Gray |
| 53 | Anonymous | |
| 54 | Anonymous | This can not be allowed to happen! |
| 55 | Andrew Rens | The law on which this is modelled is 30 years out of date and was crafted by free market fundamentalists. It has no place in a developmental state. |
| 56 | Bretton Vine | |
| 57 | Michael Wiles | |
| 58 | Grant Hearn | |
| 59 | Margaret Bass | |
| 60 | Michelle Willmers | |
| 61 | Derek Abdinor | |
| 62 | Yoni Bass | |
| 63 | Anna Berthold | |
| 64 | Richard Steele | |
| 65 | Patrick Kayton | |
| 66 | Rob Stokes | |
| 67 | nicoletta dentico | we need to move from a sunsetting paradigm in the management of knowldge to a sunrising paradigm of democratisation of science. Medical innovation can open new paths in this respect |
| 68 | Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen | |
| 69 | Mario | |
| 70 | Dwayne Bailey | Working in the field of language I have seen how existing research mechanisms halt the sharing of knowledge and have limited the grow of Human Language Technology. Research outputs are in many cases horded by academics. While there might be some slim hope of commercialisation, all to date have been limited, the true cost is the lack of movement impacting real citizens now. With this legislation the limited progress that has been made to free linguistic data will be completely wiped out as academics will be compelled to operate without the freedom to share information. This will severly hamper the rapid progress in technology development for South African languages. I would rather see legislation that encourages sharing of information and looks to use mechanism built into the model of sharing to prevent commercial exploitation without benefit to the funder, that seems to be the crux of this legislation. |
| 71 | Nealle Page | |