CAP. 130
(d)
Copyright
[Rev. 2014]
the communication to the public or the broadcasting of the sound
recording in whole or in part either in its original form or in any form
recognizably derived from the original.
(2) The provisions of paragraphs (a), (f), (j) and (h) of section 26(1) shall apply
mutatis mutandis to the copyright in a sound recording.
(3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), the rights of an owner of a copyright in a
sound recording are not infringed by the making of a single copy of the recording for
the personal and private use of the person making the copy; and in respect of such
use the owner of copyright in the sound recording shall have the right to receive fair
compensation consisting of a royalty levied on audio recording equipment or audio
blank tape suitable for recording and other media intended for recording, payable
at the point of first sale in Kenya by the manufacturer or importer for commercial
purposes of such equipment or media.
(4) The level of the royalty payable under subsection (3) shall be agreed
between organizations representative of producers of sound recordings and of
manufacturers and importers of audio recording equipment, audio blank tape and
media intended for recording or failing such agreement by the competent authority
appointed under section 48.
(5) All claims for compensation under this section shall be made through
an organization representative of producers of sound recordings and the
compensation shall be collected by the Board and distributed to the respective
copyright collecting society registered under section 46.
(6) Any person who, for commercial purposes, makes available any audio
recording equipment for the purposes of enabling any other person to make single
copies of any sound recording for his personal or private use, without payment of
the royalty levied under subsection (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding four years or to both.
[Act No. 18 of 2014.]
29. Nature of copyright in broadcasts
Copyright in a broadcast shall be the exclusive right to control the doing in Kenya
of any of the following acts, namely, the fixation and the rebroadcast of the whole
or a substantial part of the broadcast and the communication to the public of the
whole or a substantial part of a television broadcast either in its original form or in
any form recognizably derived from the original, but—
(a) paragraphs (a), (f), (e) and (k) of section 26(1) shall apply mutatis
mutandis to the copyright in a broadcast; and
(b) the copyright in a television broadcast shall include the right to control
the taking of still photographs therefrom.
30. Rights of performers
(1) Subject to section 30 of this Act, a performer shall have the exclusive right
to carry out any of the following acts—
(a) broadcast his performance except where the broadcast is made from
a fixation of the performance authorized by the performer;
(b) communicate to the public his performance except where the
communication—
(i) is made from a fixation of the performance; or
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