<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Dear Listers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif">The <a href="https://ipkenya.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/copyright__amendment_bill_2017no33.pdf">Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2017</a> was recently tabled in Parliament and has already gone through the first reading. The Bill proposes a number of new measures to strengthen the copyright regime. Some of the proposals have a bearing on the protection of computer programs, circumvention of technological protection measures, broadcasts, royalties and their collection, liability and roles of ISPs, procedures for takedown measures, and so on.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Kindly have a look at the Bill and share your views given its implication on the ICT sector. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif">You can also read through this article - </font><i style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://blog.cipit.org/2017/11/06/internet-service-providers-to-be-enlisted-in-fight-against-piracy-in-kenya/">Internet Service Providers to be Enlisted in Fight Against Piracy in Kenya</a> - </i><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif">by M. Mutemi, on the CIPIT Blog analysis the changes proposed in the Bill. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><font color="#20124d">Victor Kapiyo</font></b></span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#351c75">Partner | <i>Lawmark Partners LLP</i></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Advocate of the High Court of Kenya & </font></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">Commissioner for Oaths</font></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1"><i>Suite No. 8, Centro House, Westlands, Nairobi | </i></font><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Web: <a href="http://www.lawmark.co.ke" target="_blank">www.lawmark.co.ke</a> </i></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000000">====================================================<br><i>“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” Zig Ziglar<br></i></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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