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    "id": 768502,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/768502/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Wamuchomba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "First of all, it is good for us to come to terms that most of those people we call creative in Kenya for the last 30 or so years, have been subject to a lot of infringement when it comes to the revenues that are supposed to be dedicated to their work, basically because there has not been a good and clear framework on how to protect their royalties, their creative ideas, and how to assist them in catalysing design development, packaging and rebroadcast and airing of their materials, including distribution. Therefore, I am very excited to read the Bill and to identify a few amendments that have been introduced in the Bill that will bring soberness and will uphold the rights of the creative category of people in the society. I am more excited because I know that piracy has been a vice that has truly driven many artists home. These artists have been driven home under depression, bankruptcy and many other vices that make productive Kenyans not to give their best. I am particularly concerned because we have had so many artists. When I say artists, I mean producers of music and the owners of rights of music. They have suffered infringement because there is a lot of piracy happening in our neighbouring countries and more specifically in Tanzania. We have a lot of music produced legally here in Kenya but reproduction and redistribution of their art work is done by other people who reap from the same material but they do not work for it."
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