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Cultural Preservation Through Research and Technology: Some Possibilities

by Deborah Wanjugu According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), culture is described as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual...

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Crowd-sourcing information on CMOs

By Isaac Rutenberg** From Ifeoluwa Olubiyi, a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, we have received the following survey questions: 1. Does...

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Implementing High Court Decision in P.A.O & 2 Others v. AG 2012 on Anti-Counterfeiting Law and Access to Affordable Medicines

By Paul Ogendi In 2012, the Kenyan High Court issued a landmark judgment in favour of access to affordable medicines discussed on the IP Kenya...

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The "Sharing Economy" – in perspective

By Isaac Rutenberg** For practitioners and academics in IP law in Kenya, the following questions are asked all the time: “Isn’t IP fairly irrelevant in...

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In Pursuit of Economic Development: The Role of Copyright in Kenya

As many may know Kenya is among Africa’s top 10 economies after rebasing of its gross domestic product (GDP). Kenya is officially classified as a...

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How Local Inventors and Creators Will Benefit From the Kenya Heroes Act

“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future,” – Jomo Kenyatta, following...

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Netflix, Hulu and Cross-Border Copyright Infringement

This year, Netflix, the popular American multinational subscription video on demand (SVoD) internet streaming media service provider announced that it’s service has gone live globally....

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Social Media and the Law in the Context of Family

You have to show cause for your existence in this age by leaving gushing parental footprints online. You have to fulfil your purpose on earth...

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CIPIT Launches Africa ICT Policies Database

by Moses Karanja** This week CIPIT launched an Africa ICT Policies database available online here. The interactive database provides users with laws, policies, regulations, constitutions...

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