COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT ACT: WHAT’S NEW ON COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS?
By Cynthia Nzuki and Caroline Wanjiru Introduction In one of our previous blog posts (here), we tackled the legal framework of collective management organizations (CMOs). At that time, the existing law that informed our discussion was the Copyright Act, No.12…
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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 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 MoreComments on Draft Copyright Amendment Bill 2017
The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2017 is currently pending before Parliament (Committee stage). In the Bill, there are 13 areas of changes to the Copyright Act...
Read MoreInside the CMO – PERAK – KAHC Deal on Tariff for Hotels, Bars and Restaurants Part 4
The Copyright Act of 2001 is an Act of Parliament to make provision for copyright in literary, musical and artistic works, audio-visual works, sound recordings,...
Read MoreCopyright Board Obtains Court Order Stopping Music Society from Collecting Royalties
In earlier posts here and here, we explained how Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) appears to be engaged in an all-out war against Kenya...
Read MoreCollecting Society Wants Copyright Board Directors Jailed for Alleged Contempt of Court
In a recent newspaper advert, Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) published a Court Order and a public notice (as pictured above). According to the Court Order...
Read More2017-2018 Tariffs for Collecting Societies Gazetted
The Attorney General has approved and gazetted new tariffs for collective management organisations (CMOs) in the music industry which will be valid from April 2017...
Read MoreKenya Copyright Board Registers MPAKE as Collecting Society for Authors, Composers and Publishers of Musical Works
Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) has registered a new collective management organisation (CMO) to collect license fees and distribute royalties on behalf of authors, composers and...
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