16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I rise to support what the Chairman has said, Kshs 5000 was too low a penalty and that is why it has been raised to Kshs 200,000. Not exceeding Kshs 200,000 but it can be zero. This is a reasonable amount.
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25 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
(Marakwet West, JP)
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24 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 3 of the Bill be amended by deleting paragraph (b). This is to delete the proposed requirements that the board register all dealers of copyright. That is an impossible task. So, we agreed to delete this provision because it will not be possible for the board to register all dealers because they come in daily and they are in hundreds of thousands. Thank you.
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24 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
They had proposed that the Kenya Copyright Board (KCB) registers all copyright owners on a yearly basis. However, when we had a meeting with KCB and all the authorities that register copyrights and do collections for them, they told us that it will be impossible to register these copyright owners because they are so many across the country and requested that it will not be possible considering that the KCB is a small organisation. They said that it could be possible to do so in for the future but not for now. That is why we, as a Committee, took ...
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24 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 5 of the Bill be amended—
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24 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
(a) in paragraph (a) by inserting the words “through a competitive process” immediately after the words “appointed by the Board” appearing in the proposed new subsection 11(1); (b) by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph— “(b) by deleting subsection (2) and substituting therefor the following new subsection—
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24 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
“(2) A person shall qualify for appointment under this section if he or she— (a) is as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya of not less than five years’ standing or has held judicial office in Kenya; (b) has at least five years managerial experience; and, (c) has, at least, five years’ experience in matters relating to copyright and other related rights” I need to give the recommendations of the Committee as to why we came up with this one. One such is that on the appointment of the Executive Director of the KCB, we needed this process ...
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24 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting clause 8 and substituting therefor the following new clause— Amendment of section 8. Section 22 of the principal Act is amended in 22 of No. 12 of 2001. subsection (1) by— (a) inserting the words “or related rights”
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24 Jul 2018 in National Assembly:
immediately after the word “copyright” in the opening statement;
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