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Generative AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
Global | Publication | February 2018
In the Medium-Term Budget presentation in October 2017, finance minister Malusi Gigaba said that the deficit in the 2018/19 budget is expected to be R69.3 billion. Add to this increased tax of R15 billion that are reportedly required to fund “fee-free” higher education, and the targeted tax increases in the 2018/19 budget, and the deficit sits around the R80 billion mark - a staggering number.
It is likely that tax increases are in store which will be announced in the upcoming budget. A tactic of Treasury’s in recent years has been to introduce a raft of new taxes, which often passes by unnoticed by those footing the bill. It is interesting to sit back and reflect on the individual impact of the vast array of taxes and levies that are currently applicable, and those that will soon be applicable in South Africa.
It is evident that the South African tax base is subject to a wide variety of taxes already, which when looked at as a whole, place the tax base under significant pressure. On the eve of this year’s budget speech, all stakeholders await the inevitable tax increases and possible new tax announcements with much trepidation.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) recently ruled in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz & Ors v. Switzerland (Application No. 53600/20) that Switzerland had breached the European Convention of Human Rights (the Convention) by not taking sufficient action against climate change. In particular, it found a breach of the right to respect for private and family life contained in Article 8 of the Convention, based on Switzerland’s failure to mitigate the impact of climate change on the lives, health, well-being and quality of life of its citizens. It also ruled that Switzerland had breached the right to a fair trial in terms of Article 6, in that the domestic courts failed to examine the merits of the applicants’ complaints, including the scientific evidence. In this article we consider the key features of this landmark judgment, which has wide ramifications for Member States of the Convention.
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