Uganda’s 2025 Copyright and Neighbouring Rights (Amendment) Bill: A Turning Point for Creators’ Rights?
Introduction On 13 May 2025, the Parliament of Uganda conducted the first reading of the 2025 Copyright and Neighbouring Rights (Amendment) Bill,1 (hereinafter the Amendment Bill) which proposes reforms aimed at domesticating international treaties such as the Berne Convention for…
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By Caroline Wanjiru This post forms part 2 of our series on the Intellectual Property considerations in the Copyright Amendment Act. The IT considerations, focusing...
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By Caroline Wanjiru This post forms part one of a two part series focused on the Intellectual Property considerations in the Copyright Amendment Act. The...
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By Jackline Akello Introduction The Cyberrights Research Initiative and Localized Legal Almanac (CYRILLA – https://cyrilla.org/) is producing an open and federated resource toolkit and online...
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By Caroline Wanjiru Today we pause our continuing IP series to dedicate this entire blog to the one and only Eliud Kipchoge. Why you ask?...
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By Grace Mutung’u This is the finale in our series on Data Protection principles espoused in the Data Protection Bill. Clause 25 of the 2019...
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By Jaaziyah Satar and Malcolm Kijirah Net neutrality is the concept of free access to the internet. Net neutrality has many advantages and disadvantages. The...
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By Malcolm Kijirah This post is the fourth of CIPIT’s analysis on the data protection principles provided for under section 25 of the Data Protection...
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By Jackline Akello The following post is the third of CIPIT’s analysis of the data protection principles provided for under section 25 of the Data...
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The Huduma Namba draft bill (“the Bill”) was introduced in July 2019 against the backdrop of a petition that challenged the recent amendments to the...
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