Monthly Archives: November, 2024
Tennant and Van Heerden, ‘Product Liability in an Age of Development Risks: Should South Africa Reconsider Adopting a Development Risk Defence?’
ABSTRACT To provide protection against harm caused by defective, unsafe products and to promote product safety, the law of product liability has developed as a specialized area of the law of delict (tort). The vexing question is, who should bear such liability? This contribution interrogates the notorious EU development risk defence, which exonerates manufacturers that […]
Langford and Foong, ‘Unproven stem cell therapies: an evaluation of patients’ capacity to give informed consent’
ABSTRACT Capitalising on the hype surrounding regenerative medicine, there are clinics worldwide marketing unproven stem cell-based therapies to patients. Some patients have travelled overseas to access treatments they believe are safe and effective. This practice, known as stem cell tourism, could result in adverse effects in some patients. This paper seeks to examine how the […]
‘The horrors of copyright from Dracula to Nosferatu’
Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish author, best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Stoker drew extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history for the novel, and he gave the title character the name Dracula because he thought it meant ‘devil’ in Romanian. The novel was published in the United Kingdom in […]
‘Infringing AI: Liability for AI-generated outputs under international, EU, and UK copyright law’
One of the best-known frames of Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix is that of Phoenix’s ‘Joker’ inside a lift. Let’s imagine a situation in which the user of a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model inputted the following prompt: ‘Create an image of Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie, 2019, screenshot from a movie, movie […]