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    "id": 290460,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/290460/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the Copyright Act, it is very good to bring amendments. But we want amendments that also help the industry from infringement of copyright and also that help them to receive the money that is taken by the Music Copyright Society, because it does receive payments and royalties, but those royalties do not always reach the artists who have performed. I would urge that a composite amendment does come at this stage, so that we can have the percentage of royalties that must be remitted to the owner of the copyright, just like we did for the coffee farmers, where we said that 80 per cent of the money must go to the farmer and 20 per cent to all the middle men. In this Copyright Law, I am asking hon. Members to support an amendment to give 80 per cent of all the monies recovered to the copyright owner and only 20 per cent to be shared by everybody else along the line. Our musicians and our artists have remained so poor, yet the quality of their work is so good. Why is the money getting lost in the middle? I am asking the House that this is a matter that we must support. We will not entirely leave it to the Government, just like the Sugar Tribunal; we shall line up amendments for enactment at this stage."
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