African Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of Folklore: Rethinking Swakopmund Protocol as a Model Law and Sui Generis System
By Michael Biko Butera* Introduction Traditional Knowledge (TK) is any knowledge originating from a local or traditional community that is the result of intellectual activity...
Read More#UBUNIFU – CIPIT PANEL ON THE STRATHMORE LAW CLINIC UBUNIFU INITIATIVE (PART TWO)
By Caroline Wanjiru and Cynthia Nzuki. As highlighted in our previous post (here), the Strathmore Law Clinic (website here) began an initiative known as the...
Read MoreState 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...
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