The course content addresses the following topics:
- The constitutional context of South African intellectual property law
- The role of international intellectual property law institutions
- Implications of the shift from the physical to the virtual
- Theories of the roles of public rights - compulsory licences, fair use exceptions, and term limits - and their place in existing legislation
- The growth of licensing to create open content (such as creative commons) and the technical and policy infrastructures being developed to expand the creation and use of public rights
- Law reform initiatives in South African intellectual property law