Geographical Indication (GI) options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanaian Cocoa

Reflections on Open Scholarship Modalities and the Copyright Environment
prevailing copyright environment. Respondents were drawn from the following
groups of stakeholders:
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authors of scholarly works, including scholarly experts on copyright,
literature, political science, history and sociology;
publishers;
information managers, including librarians, digital archivists, managers of
digital repositories and conventional archivists;
copyright administrators and regulators, including representatives of the
Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO), the State Law Office and collective
management organisations (CMOs);
information consumers, including general readers and representatives of
consumer organisations and civil society organisations (CSOs) working on
education, access to information and production of information; and
research supporters and funders.
The research team encountered some challenges in carrying out the field research.
Many of the respondents were unavailable for full face-to-face interviews, for various
reasons. This forced the research team to leave survey questionnaires in the interviewees’
offices and collect the completed questionnaires later. This had the potential
to affect the quality of data received. In the end, it was decided that the most useful
data came from four of the six stakeholder groups targeted (see Section 5 below).
4. Desk research findings
This section provides the findings from the literature review and analysis of legal
instruments.
Development of copyright in Kenya and Africa
Sections 26–29 of the Kenya Copyright Act of 2001 define copyright as a set of
exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work. It is a bundle
of moral and economic rights that subsist in the category of works outlined
under Section 22 of the Kenya Copyright Act of 2001. Copyright includes the
right to copy, distribute and adapt the work (Goldstein and Reese, 2010; Ouma
and Sihanya, 2010; Sihanya, 2010).
Kenya’s initial engagement with the copyright law was, as with many African
countries, via its colonial experience under Britain. In Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,
Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and South Africa, and in Anglophone Africa generally,
copyright law began with the application of all or some of the UK Copyright Acts
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