South Africa’s “Much Improved” Copyright Amendment Bill Tabled in Parliament.
Amending the Copyright Act has long been on the horizon of South Africa's legal reform agenda and through the collective effort of...
Update on Nigerian Copyright Commission Raids
The Nigeria Communication Commission in the first half of the 2016 raided various warehouses in the north central, South East and south...
Your Caller Tune? My Copyright.....Tanzanian Court Awards Landmark Damages for Copyright Infringemen
East African copyright law has recently risen to the fore of IP rights enforcement with several recent successful enforcement decisions...
MTN pays out Artist for unauthorized use of a sound recording as ring back tunes.
MTN, a mobile telecom service provider in Nigeria in a spate of bad luck finds itself in court for the third time this year for IP...
Zanzibar signs into law new IP Regulations
Zanzibar (a grouping of islands off the East African coast), as a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, has recently promulgated the Zanzibar...
Chocolate not so sweet
Navendran “Novi” Naidoo, a rapper from the coastal city of Durban South Africa is making waves in South Africa by claiming that the...
Burundi Accedes to the Berne Convention and WIPO Copyright Treaty
It appears that the Republic of Burundi is starting to settle back into the normal course of business after the recent political unrest...
South African court sets royalty rates for playing copyrighted music in retail outlets
South African court sets royalty rates for playing copyrighted music in retail outlets: In a case decided in November 2015 in the South...
Are African copyright laws primed to deal with the growth of advertising and media in the digital sp
PWC has recently released its report on the entertainment and media outlook for 2015 through to 2019 for South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya....
Is there a need for an Alternative Dispute Mechanism for Copyright Infringement in Nigeria?
The Nigerian Federal High court recently handed down a judgement in a copyright infringement case thirty years after the initial suit was...
