[kictanet] copyright infringment / theft vs local content value

Wed Aug 11 11:32:07 EAT 2010

Andrea  
I think it's important to differentiate between content and the delivery
platform: A story on, say, diamond mining is a story on diamond mining. You
can deliver it as a radio piece, a video (via internet or TV) or a written
piece (via print or internet) or as a combination thereof. 'Multimedia'
merely means a combination of the above (i.e. includes the written word),
and that's not really specific to Africa. Look at newspapers or magazines
with a website, print edition, and possibly a TV show.

[] Fully agree however we also need to cater for the literacy levels and
also the diversity in languages.   Multimedia helps us reach more now while
we address the literacy challenge.

Finally: I wouldn't dismiss copy right protection entirely as stifling. Yes,
the internet makes copyright enforcement a lot more difficult, but I think
it's still a legitimate question to ask whether people who have put a lot of
effort into a piece of work should not be able to enjoy the income from it.

[] 

I agree with you here too but proposing that technology has made the
traditional methods of making sure copyright owners are rewarded too
difficult and an unenforceable law is not worth having.  Let us look at the
methods that some of this copyrighted material is distributed and maybe
collect from these resources.  One could argue that communication companies
both Broadcast and Telecoms have some licensing and regulatory authority
which collects allot of funds from the operators.   Why do we not make sure
that some of these funds are distributed to these copyright owners.  For
example most Telco's are using ring back tones without paying the owners.
(brain storming and thinking out loud so feel free to shoot me down on this
J)

regards

Regards, Andrea 

On 11 August 2010 07:52, Badru Ntege <ntegeb at one2net.co.ug> wrote:

Hi All

I'm posting this on both I-network (UG) and Kictanet (KE) to continue and
expand dialogue that has been going on within the Linux User group mailing
list in UG.

A few weeks ago I shared a website that we have been working on as an
experiment on local content.  This website presents an archive of broadcast
content from about 16 local radio stations going back to the beginning of
2010.  http://www.yradio.ug/  

I firmly believe that Africa's local content will be mainly multi-media as
opposed to the written word.   This goes back to our heritage where our
history has been mainly through story telling passed down from generation to
generation as opposed to our European cousins,  where the written word goes
back for many generations.

However the multimedia might fly in the face of what I call historical IPR
and Copyright legislation.  I do believe that this legislation needs to be
reviewed in favour of the current times where the traditional methods are
unenforceable.

On the international scene African nations are being forced to adopt some of
this legislation which I do believe will stifle innovation and growth.

For Kenya I understand that  Kenya Music Copy Right Association  has been in
place and collects from those who play music from local artists.  I would
like us to look at what has happened to that industry in the last few years
since this was put in force.   In the late 90's  early 2000's Kenya local
music was  dominant in the region.  However the industry has not grown as it
should have and has been overtaken by other markets like Uganda where strict
enforcement does not exist and the most frequently played music is local
ugandan music.

Some have said that what yradio is doing is theft.   I would like to here
more views on this and also on the notion that our future content for the
continent will mainly be Multi-media.

Regards

Badru

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