Lion King Case Illustrates Overlap Between Copyright and Traditional Cultural Expressions
By Wanjiku Karanja** The Disney animated movie “The Lion King” is a fixture of popular culture having generated millions of dollars in revenue for Disney...
Read MoreTowards a Governance Theory of Copyright Law
By Samuel Ugwumba* In the past several months I have been thinking about, and rethinking, copyright law and theory. This rethinking culminated in a paper...
Read MoreOh, the Irony: Using Copyright to Take Down CopyrightX Lecture on Copyright
To My CopyrightX Class, You will recall that only a few hours ago today, we covered the CopyrightX Week 3 Lectures on The Subject Matter...
Read MoreMusic, Money and Middle Men: Changing Dynamics between Collecting Societies, Rights Holders and the Public
Disclosure: Back in the day when this blogger was young and naive, he worked both at Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) and Music Copyright Society of Kenya...
Read MoreLibraries, CIPIT and Safaricom Views on Intermediary Liability for Copyright Infringement
As many readers may know, there are currently no provisions under the Laws of Kenya that specially address the issue of intermediary liability. There are...
Read MoreThe Law on Works Made for Hire: Riara Group of Schools v Lucas Kamau
Suppose an employee develops a work eligible for copyright- could be literary works, musical works, artistic works, audio-visual works, sound recordings or broadcasts, who owns...
Read MoreArt Heist for Good or Blatant theft of Kibera’s Art?
‘I think the community can benefit from what we’re doing. It didn’t feel like they cared about the art. They have nowhere to pee, they...
Read MoreCopyright and the Doctrine of Fair Use
‘While I shall think myself bound to secure every man in the enjoyment of his copyright, one must not put manacles upon science.’ – Lord...
Read MoreMusical Entrepreneurship and Copyright in Kenya
In case you missed it, the former Registrar of Copyrights, Dr. Marisella Ouma recently penned a newspaper piece titled: “Musicians are now earning better returns”...
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