Use of Skin SIM Technology and Data Privacy in Kenya
Following our previous update on the Thin Sim debate in Kenya, the High Court made its ruling in the case of Legal Advice Centre aka...
Read MoreJurisprudence on Defamation on Social Media in Africa
In a South African case reported as Isparta v Richter 2013 6 SA 4529 (GP) the plaintiff instituted an action for defamation against the defendants...
Read MoreRecap 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...
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