ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Copyright Act
26. Nature of copyright in literary, musical or artistic works and audio-visual works
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
26. Nature of copyright in literary, musical or artistic works and audio-visual works
(1)Copyright in a literary, musical, artistic or audio-visual work shall be the exclusive right to control the doing in Kenya of any of the following acts—(a)the reproduction in any material form of the original work;(b)the translation or adaptation of the work;(c)the distribution to the public of the work by way of sale, rental, lease, hire, loan, importation or similar arrangement;(d)the communication to the public of the whole work or a substantial part thereof, either in its original form or in any form recognizably derived from the original;(e)the making available of the whole work or a substantial part thereof, either in its original form or in any form recognizably derived from the original; and(f)the broadcasting of the whole work or a substantial part thereof, either in its original form or in any form recognizably derived from the original.(2)Copyright in a work of architecture shall also include the exclusive right to control the erection of any building which reproduces the whole or a substantial part of the work either in its original form or in any form recognizably derived from the original; but the copyright in any such work shall not include the right to control the reconstruction of a building to which that copyright relates in the same style as the original.(3)The exclusive rights under this section shall be limited to the extent as provided for under the Second Schedule.