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

Reflections on Open Scholarship Modalities and the Copyright Environment
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Seventh, all stakeholders should actively promote an understanding of
the important implications of Copyright Management of scholarly works
and encourage engagement with the development and implementation of
Copyright Management tools to achieve the overarching objectives (SURF
Foundation, n.d.).
The proposed amendments (in fact supersession) of the Kenyan Copyright Act
currently being considered by the relevant policy-makers will thus need to secure
balance in two contexts so as to help realise an appropriate digital copyright
regime (Ouma and Sihanya, 2010; Sihanya, 2012a, 2012b, 2013; cf. Mwakisyala,
2000). There is need for balance between protection and access, and for balance
between technological protection measures (TPMs), digital rights management
(DRM) systems or rights management information (RMI), on the one hand, and
market principles (or the price mechanism), social norms, copyright and related
law, on the other (Sihanya, 2013b).
5. Field research findings
This report gives the findings based on the responses from four of the stakeholder
groups surveyed: (1) authors of scholarly works, (2) publishers, (3) information
managers and (4) information consumers. A separate questionnaire was prepared
for each category surveyed. The questionnaires were designed to gather data on:
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motivation for publication of scholarly works by authors;
rights in the scholarly work that the stakeholders, especially authors,
consider most important;
how the authors use scholarly works after publication;
how the copyright policies of publishers affect authors;
whether the stakeholders are familiar with the concepts of open scholarship
and alternative publishing; and
how open scholarship is affecting the relationships among authors and
various stakeholders.
The field research generated several main findings, as detailed in the subsections
which follow.
Motivation for authorship
The 20 authors surveyed were based at public and private universities. Most of
these authors have published books, journal articles, articles in peer-reviewed
magazines, book chapters, course materials and related scholarly materials. The
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