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    "id": 849390,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Yes, Kamaru. Many artists during his funeral complained that they want to meet the President. The reason is, there is a problem in enforcement of intellectual property in the protection of works of musicians. Mr. Kamaru did a fantastic job, but then, they cannot even afford to pay their hospital bills. There is another renowned singer in the South Rift. He was called Kipchamba. He sang so many songs. Hon. Senators from the Kipsigis community are here. Sen. (Dr.) Milgo is here. He is renowned but you cannot see the fruits of their labour. There is a gospel singer from the same South Rift called Pastor Kimetto. He sang fantastic songs but all of them are reproduced and sold by people in form of cassettes, tapes, compact discs and flash disks but they are paying nothing. You will find the same GreatCommission Singers struggling. They have to conduct a Harambee to survive. They do not even have equipment. They are living a very modest life but in the United States of America (USA) it is different. I had the opportunity to California the other day when we went for a conference with the Senate Minority Leader and a few others. In California and Los Angeles – Sen. Kihika will tell you because she has lived in the USA for a long period of time and even practiced law there – copyright or intellectual property protection is taken very seriously. For example, Justin Bieber is a very young man who just started singing the other day is living in Beverly Hills. If you take a tour there, you will be told, ―this is so and so, this is the singer who sang this song, he or she is renowned, this was Michael Jackson‘s house -- -.‖ The celebrities of the USA, the big men there, the Kanye Wests‘ of these world, excel because of copyright work. How do we know Beyoncé or her husband? It is because of music. That music is protected and it pays. If Sony Records in the USA has taken rights for recording and distributing music on behalf of a particular musician, the returns are usually enormous. When they say that so and so is number one in the charts, it means something. It means that resources have come to somebody‘s pocket. These are the things we need to deal with. There is an interesting provision that has been put here. There are some people who do not want to visit an architect. They see a beautiful house and instead of asking who the architect is, they look for a shortcut and go to the owner of the house to ask them to give them copies of their architectural work. They use it to reproduce the house. The architect can clearly tell that is his or her thoughts. They are being distributed in a cavalier manner without benefits accruing to the thoughts and minds. To a great extent, I am very happy with Nairobi. In the new Upper hill, we have new buildings that make Nairobi unique. Counties should provide a law which stipulates that any persons who want to build any commercial structure in our towns – Nakuru, Nyeri or even Ndumberi which is now a big town, Kiambu, Mombasa or Kisumu – must have unique architectural designs that make the towns attractive. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}