Recap of 2016 East African Islamic Finance Summit: An Intellectual Property Perspective
Islamic Finance is financing that is based on Islamic Law known as Shari’ah. Islamic Finance is gaining popularity due to a growing demand for its...
Read MoreIntellectual Property Rights: the Key to Supporting Economic Growth? – A Different View
As African nations transition from resource to innovation-led knowledge economies it is critically important to raise awareness of the positive impact of IP and in...
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 MoreHashtags will not release our bloggers, knowledge of the law will!
‘Freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth’ Justice Louis...
Read MoreA Trade Mark Law Perspective of "Black Friday"
“Black Friday “may be defined in two ways. First, it is day that marked stock market catastrophe. Originally, 24th September, 1869 was deemed “Black Friday”...
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 MoreSocial Media, Free Speech and Criminal Justice: High Court Ruling in Mutahi Ngunyi v Director of Public Prosecutions & 4 Ors
On January 16th 2016, popular social media-savvy journalist Larry Madowo posted the tweet captioned above in reference to a list of alleged corrupt public officials...
Read MoreYou Will Need a License to Sell Stuff on Whatsapp: Thoughts on the Electronic Transactions Regulations 2016 by Communications Authority
Late last year, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) published six Draft Kenya Information and Communications Regulations inviting stakeholders and members of the public to...
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