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    "id": 768831,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "(d) encourage public participation in the management, protection and conservation of the environment; (e) protect genetic resources and biological diversity; Having said so, we realise that these particular amendments aim to ensure that the resources that we realise through the provisions that are in this Bill lead to socio-economic development of our people, and that payments such as royalties and others related to it that are paid to the people who create these intellectual property, the publishers or distributors do actually get there. I remember in the last Parliament we had an informal setting that was being driven by Hon. Moses Kuria where we met musicians of this country. One of the challenges they told us they face was loss of revenue through piracy, counterfeiting and mismanaging of their copyrights. Therefore, through this Bill we hope that we shall be able to stem the online piracy that we are witnessing in our country today, especially that is really affecting our musicians and artists and ensure that we make ISPs liable for any online piracy that may take place. We know that by so doing, the biggest beneficiaries will be the young people full of talent. We have seen Kenya lead the way in terms of Information and Communication Technology. We have seen Kenya coming out as the nation that developed mobile money application. M-Pesa is the creation of a Kenyan. But we want to make sure that the creators of these great ideas are protected and they get to earn a meaningful living out of their creation. We also want to agree that our culture is one of the richest that we have in this world. We stand out as a country with cultural diversity. It is one of the things that sell our tourism. We have seen that in most of our tourism marketing strategies in this country, we use culture as one of the things in this market. We are a cultural destination. I am sure you will agree with me from where you sit that one of the richest cultures that have been greatly used by the nation to sell our tourism is the Maasai culture. Therefore, there is need to ensure that, that culture benefits the owners of that culture, who are the Maasai community. And they must be protected. They must gain meaningfully out of their own culture, so that whatever comes into the country through tourism and we know the contributors of that product, they can give something back to the community; the community can grow through that revenue; and we can see the counties from where these communities come benefitting in a big way. I hope that this House will find it necessary to truly contribute and support this very important Bill and realise that this particular Bill, for the first time, takes into account a treaty that was signed by this country called the Marrakesh Treaty that aims to facilitate access to published works of persons who are either blind or visually impaired. That treaty needs to be domesticated. And this particular Bill seeks to do exactly that. So we really look forward to passing this Bill so that we can protect a very important sector of this country, a sector that brings revenue that is not well accounted for and does not reach the people that actually played a role in creating, and that we can empower our youth and the artists of this country. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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