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    "id": 956515,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/956515/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwambu Mabongah",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga",
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    "content": "This Treaty is very important because local artists take hours, days and sometimes even years to come up with content that can earn them some income, only to realise that people come in between and take advantage of them and make millions of shillings out of it. The other day, when we were doing public participation on the Data Protection Bill, there was a submission on this aspect. A creative young lady was take advantage of by her who made millions of shillings out of her. This Treaty is going to protect the creator of content and ensure that what the person has struggled to come up with enables him or her to earn a living or develop the talent that God deposited in them. In this era of copyright and piracy, it is very difficult to protect some of these people if we do not have this kind of treaty in place. This way, we are going to protect our young artists who are talented in this industry. If you turn on your television today, you will realise that West Africa is doing very well. If properly managed, this industry can provide employment to our young people. It will give us room to tap more talents from young, upcoming artists. Similarly, once we ratify this Treaty, we will be able to protect our local artists from being exploited at the international level. They do their work here and once they get a privilege of getting out of the country through their own means, some partners from the developed world claim ownership of whatever belongs to our upcoming local artists."
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