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- From: charles batambuze <batambuze_charles AT hotmail.com>
- To: <gakuru AT creativecommons.org>
- Cc: CC Africa <ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [ccAfrica] @ WIPO SCCR
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:14:31 +0000
This week I have the rare opportunity of taking part in deliberations of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) here at WIPO in Geneva as part of the delegation from the South Centre. There are about 3 issues on which member states will deliberate including limitations and exceptions for visually impaired/persons with print disabilities; limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives and; limitations and exceptions for educational and research institutions. A treaty for the visually impaired has been proposed and this morning the member states will be poring over the text and also whether the issue of visually impaired persons is best handled through a treaty. Meanwhile the libraries, archives, educational and research institutions seek to have limitations and exceptions deeply entrenched in copyright laws to enable them function well.
Charles Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:14:05 +0300 Subject: Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law From: gakuru AT creativecommons.org To: batambuze_charles AT hotmail.com CC: gakuru AT gmail.com; dkawooya AT gmail.com; ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org Charles, inline responses... On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 11:52 AM, charles batambuze <batambuze_charles AT hotmail.com> wrote:
True and of course, traditions are quite different from evolutionary culture (and language -- the reason why we've actually invited Kenya's hilarious "Language Evolutionists" www.sheng.co.ke folk to our next week's meeting. Be that as it may, the traditional culture reflection was just but to illustrate there existed a very fairly balanced ownership model (and now that you have raised justice system, please follow below cc-licensed:-) "Oaths played a significant part in the judicial process. Fear of breaking the oath and the misfortunes that would befall one prevented people from giving false testimonies, as well as brought defenders to justice by means of a guilty conscience and confession. Curses acted as good deterrents against crime. Most cases heard by the kiama involved debts resulting from transactions of sheep, goats or cattle, exchanged in buying land or paying marriage insurances (rũracio). There were also a few criminal cases involving murder, trespass, assault, theft and witchcraft. The last two were the worst crimes. Theft for first time offenders was not serious but perpetual offenders would face death just like proven witchdoctors." [emphasis mine] http://muigwithania.com/early-history/ - enjoy!
It would be quite interesting to assemble all the diverse content stakeholders in one room engaged in a conversation on the various aspects, copyright being their Lowest Common Denominator...
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Ory Okolloh, 11/01/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Alex Gakuru, 11/01/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
charles batambuze, 11/02/2012
- Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law, Ory Okolloh, 11/02/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Dick Kawooya, 11/02/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Alex Gakuru, 11/02/2012
- Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law, Yemi Lawal, 11/02/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
charles batambuze, 11/03/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Alex Gakuru, 11/03/2012
- [ccAfrica] @ WIPO SCCR, charles batambuze, 11/20/2012
- Re: [ccAfrica] @ WIPO SCCR, Tobias Schonwetter, 11/20/2012
- Re: [ccAfrica] @ WIPO SCCR, charles batambuze, 11/21/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Alex Gakuru, 11/03/2012
- Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law, IP Kenya, 11/21/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Alex Gakuru, 11/02/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
charles batambuze, 11/02/2012
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Re: [ccAfrica] SEACONET Model Copyright law,
Alex Gakuru, 11/01/2012
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