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    A Critical Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights in the Entertainment Industry in Uganda
    (Uganda Christian University, 2024-05-28) Alice Nakitende
    The purpose of this study is to evaluate the applicability of copyright laws to authors and creators in Uganda. The public's negative opinions concerning the inadequate implementation of the Copyright and Neighboring Rights Act 2006 have made it difficult to enforce the law, even with government efforts to facilitate its enactment. This research centers on infringement acts, their causes, the difficulties enforcement agencies encounter, and tactics and methods to enhance their application and pertinence in safeguarding the rights of musicians. The study's findings aim to ascertain if Uganda's copyright laws have been sufficient and current enough to shield copyright and related rights holders from infringement. The focus of this research stems from the reality that very few musicians receive a substantial revenue from the sale of their work through various channels. This phenomenon is mostly related to music piracy, which continues to be a source of great distress for numerous authors and copyright holders in Uganda. A legislative framework that would allow artists to benefit from their hard work would be created by the World Intellectual Property Organization and its member states. Significant progress has been made in developed nations such as the United States and Europe, but in Uganda, where pirated music is ubiquitous throughout Kampala's streets, piracy and infringement appear to be persistent issues that could last for years to come.Inspite of the law’s enactment, infringement appears to be increasing. This research will seek to examine the relevance of copyright law in curbing infringement in the music industry and reasons why infringement seems to be on the rise despite the law being enacted. The research will be considering these problems while trying to come up with practical solutions to help the state perform its duty to protect the rights of the musicians, thus the measures to improve on the copyright law enforcement in different ways and its implementation methods in order to enhance its usage and relevancy and create awareness about infringement and its emerging legal issues by finding credible long term and short term solutions to such problems as may be discovered.
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    A Critical Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights in the Entertainment Industry in Uganda
    (Uganda Christian University, 2024-05-19) Alice Nakitende
    This study focuses on assessing the relevance of copyright law to Ugandan musicians. Despite the government efforts in enacting and facilitating the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act 2006, its relevance and enforcement has remained unclear due to the negative public attitudes towards its poor implementation. The study focuses on such attitudes, infringement acts, its causes, challenges faced by enforcement agencies and to propose strategies and ways to improve its usage and relevancy in its role to protect the musicians’ rights. Findings from the study are targeting to discover whether the copyright laws in Uganda have been relevant and adequate enough to protect the owners of copyright and related rights against infringement. The emphasis of this research come from the fact that very few musicians make a worth-while income from sales of their music in different channels, this seems to be attributed to music infringement which remains a living night mare for many artists in Uganda. The World Intellectual Property Organisation and Member states have devised a legal regime that would afford the protection of artists to realize from the fruits of their labour. While in some developed countries, tremendousachievements have been realized, like in America and European countries, however the story seems to change in Uganda since piracy /infringement seems to be still a reality that threatens to be with us for many years to come as pirated music is found in Uganda everywhere on streets of Kampala. This research will seek to examine the relevance of copyright law in curbing infringement in the music industry and reasons why infringement seems to be on the rise despite the law being enacted. The research will be considering these problems while trying to come up with practical solutions to help the state perform its duty to protect the rights of the musicians, thus the measures to improve on the copyright law enforcement in different ways and its implementation methods in order to enhance its usage and relevancy and create awareness about infringement and its emerging legal issues by finding credible long term and short term solutions to such problems as may be discovered.