Balancing Broadcasters’ Copyright and Public Interests – Assessing Kenya’s Position on the Draft WIPO Broadcasting Organization Treaty
Introduction For over two decades, the Draft WIPO Broadcasting Treaty has been under development,1 aiming to give broadcasters updated signal-based protection2 against illegal digital reproduction and online redistribution.3 As these negotiations evolve, understanding the position of individual nations becomes crucial.…
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The 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...
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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...
Read MoreIntellectual Property Collateralisation in the Age of the Movable Property Security Rights Act: The Case of Nakumatt Supermarkets
By Victor B. Nzomo & Perpetua N. Mwangi** Nakumatt Holdings Limited (Nakumatt) is the proprietor of the largest supermarket retail chain in East and Central...
Read MoreE-Commerce and the Law in Kenya: Domain Names, Trade Marks and Dispute Resolution
This semester, we kick off a brand new course for final year undergraduate law students on e-commerce and the law. This course aims at explaining...
Read MoreInternet Governance Forum 2017 Day 2
A full day of #IGF2017 began with a content-packed session on ‘Emerging Challenges for Data Protection in Latin American Countries’. As Kenya continues to grapple...
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