On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Lmwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
They have to prove that: 1) They are authorized to do this in lieu of CSK 2) They have to prove that digital audio is covered by laws of kenya (Gakuru ?)
I saw this coming after I read Njeri's post, shuddered... Immediately requested for the ICT Standards Task Force meeting. serve on it pushing for, among others, local intellectual property rights protection (further to Wesley's game patenting challenges.) In case you did not know, estimated 70% of high school kids are on mig33.com for mobile phone chat. They use it to download ring tones, mp3 songs, movies, pictures, etc. Does it mean these foreign companies-interests agents now have rights to take all of Kenyans 16 million phones to check for suspected "license infringed" ring tones/songs? Therefore, I've just invited Cathy Mputhia to next Tuesday's MMU meeting. We've been having a conversation following "Who does the copyright law protect?" http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13036&Item.... Hope she agrees to come speak to skunkworks pro-bono. ----- New Media - Food for thought: (wikipedia) Positive: New media, and particularly the Internet, provides the potential for a democratic postmodern public sphere, in which citizens can participate in well informed, non-hierarchical debate pertaining to their social structures.(Douglas Kellner and James Bohman) Negative: The transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations who achieve a level of global influence which was hitherto unimaginable. (Ed Herman and Robert McChesney) ---- We may be looking to develop local content (software, music, videos, websites, etc) but are we equally protecting that local content from foreigners plagiarisms with the same zeal they protect theirs locally? (with the help of Kenyan law enforcement agents funded by taxpayers)