SURINAME – Parliament on Friday gave its approval for amending the 1913 Copyrights Act. 32 legislators voted in favor of the amendments while nobody voted against the amendments. Legislators discussed the amendments until 10 p.m. After the ‘new’ Copyrights Act goes into effect, the only organization which currently represents copyrights in Suriname, Stichting Auteursrechten Suriname (Sasur), has exactly three months to meet the new requirements. The most important requirement is that Sasur which currently operates in the form of a foundation must ‘become’ an association. “Parliament has done what it needed to do and time will tell how effective these amendments will be. Sasur will have to adapt itself to the current situation on behalf of its members…[+]