Makerere university to host EASLIS Public Talk on Creativity and Copyright

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The Uganda Textbook-Academic and Non-Ficton Authors Association (UTANA) currently hosted by the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS), College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS) in partnership with the Uganda Reproduction Rights Organization (URRO) will hold a Public Talk on Creativity and Copyright.

“Creativity and Copyright: Author’s Role in Copyright protection” is the theme.

The output of the Public Talk shall inform UTANA’s action programme, the International Authors Forum at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Presenter: Prof. David J. Bakibinga, Professor of Commercial Law, School of Law, Makerere University

Discussant: Hon. Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire, Courts of Judicature, Republic of Uganda

The talk will be held on 12th September 2014 at the Conference Hall, Level 4, College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS)-Block A, Makerere University.

The public is invited by Copyright collecting Society in Uganda cordially to a half day Public Talk.

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