State Intervention on the Collective Management Organisations (CMO's) in Kenya: A Commentary on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2018
By Caroline Wanjiru. In our previous post, we addressed the law as is on Collective Management Organisations (CMO’s). Now we’ll analyze the proposed amendments to...
Read More#UBUNIFU – CIPIT PANEL ON THE STRATHMORE LAW CLINIC UBUNIFU INITIATIVE (PART ONE)
By Cynthia Nzuki and Jaaziyah Satar* The Strathmore Law Clinic kick-started an initiative known as the Ubunifu Initiative. This initiative is a project of the...
Read MoreRegulation of Collective Management Organisations in Kenya: Understanding the Law as-is
By Caroline Wanjiru* From our previous post, we have described the various Collective Management Organizations’ (CMO’s) in Kenya. Briefly, CMOs are not-for-profit membership entities authorized...
Read MoreThe Collective Management Organisations in Kenya’s Creative Market
Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com licensed by CC 3.0 BY As part of CIPIT’s daily interactions with creatives, the Centre is embarking on an...
Read MorePROTECT AND COMMERCIALIZE YOUR KNOW-HOW
by Chebet Koros A tech invention may be protected through a patent, trade secret or know-how. In most cases, this innovation is first kept a...
Read MoreIs Browsing Copyrighted Material Online Legal? The Case of: PRCA v NLA (2013)
The Internet has fundamentally altered the manner in which copyrightedworks are created, distributed and accessed. The on-demand access to and transmission of works online has...
Read MoreTobacco Regulations, 2014: Balancing the Protection of Trade Secrets and the Right to Privacy.
By Mercy King’ori** The Tobacco Regulations of 2014, which were created to protect the health of smokers and “second hand smokers”, have been criticized for...
Read MoreCelebrating Trailblazing Kenyan Women in Innovation and Creativity: World Intellectual Property Day 2018
The theme for this year’s World Intellectual Property (WIP) Day on 26 April is ‘Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity’. According to the World...
Read MoreWIPO Setting Up External Offices in Africa – What to Expect
On 14 December 2017, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry and Ambassador Audu Ayinla Kadiri, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the...
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