Hon. William Kipkemoi Kisang

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• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The Order Paper is the machine. I was reading my notes. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As I had said, the Beijing Treaty on Audio-Visual Performances was laid on the Table of the House on 8th November 2018 by the Leader of the Majority Party. The Treaty seeks to maintain the protection of the rights of performers in the audio-visual performance and maintain a balance between them and the larger public interest, particularly on education, research and access to information. If you remember, we passed the Access to Information Act, 2016 in the last Parliament. When considering the Treaty, the Committee wrote to the key stakeholders and placed an advert in the local dailies on 4th ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The Beijing Treaty on Audio-Visual Performances is a multilateral Treaty which regulates copyright for audio-visual performances and expands the performers’ rights. As content is increasingly audio-visual and its performers’ rights and exploitation global, the absence of a specific World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) treaty acknowledging the rights of performers in this field was felt to be an anachronistic and unfair anomaly. The Beijing Treaty carries the recognition that all performers of literary and artistic works or expression of folklore deserve to be protected, regardless of the nature. Thus, setting the record straight. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Lastly, the Treaty is encouraging countries to amend their respective intellectual property provisions accordingly. The Treaty was adopted on 26th June 2012 by WIPO’s Diplomatic Conference on the protection of audio-visual performance after 20 years of negotiations. You can imagine that it took over 20 years to negotiate this Treaty. Since that time, it is only 26 countries that have adopted it. We need a minimum of 30 countries to ratify the Treaty for it to be legally The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: binding. Kenya will be the 27th country to adopt the Treaty. Kenya signed it and the process of ratification began immediately. You can imagine that it took us seven years from 2012 to ratify the Treaty. That is basically the 10th Parliament and we are now in the 12th Parliament. The Beijing Treaty will become legally binding only once it is ratified by 30 eligible States, including countries or certain inter-governmental organisations. I believe that lobbying is required for this Treaty so that 30 countries can ratify it for it to be effective. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Having received both written and oral submissions from the public and other stakeholders, the Committee observes that the ratification of the Treaty will: view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: (a) Enable the Kenyan actors and performers to earn royalties from the performances which are exploited abroad. Currently, they only earn locally where they are also exploited because they do not earn what they deserve. Luckily last week, we passed the Copyright (Amendment) Bill. I believe the President signed it this morning. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: (b) Expand the scope of exploitation of audio-visual acts to new environment in the digital world. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: (c) Boost investment by encouraging effective and well enforced copyright and related rights legislation which will be conducive to the development of balanced framework. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: (d) Develop and maintain the protection of the rights of performers in the audio-visual performances in an effective and uniform matter. view