SPLIT SHEETS summary: A split sheet is a written agreement between the people involved in the creation of music. It identifies each contributor and establishes ownership percentages among them. The discussion here is around returns arrangements in a limited scope on creation. We use audio…
There are several categories for IP rights. They include Copyright, Trademark, Patents, and Trade Secrets. For this writeup we limit ourselves to Trade Secrets. Trade Secrets refer to any information that a business has which gives it an advantage over its competitors such as lists, patterns,…
In Kenya, all concerns of intellectual property are registerable at the Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) [1]. Its website offers quite comprehensive information on procedures on Intellectual property rights. Therein trademark[2] is defined as a sign which serves to distinguish the goods of an industrial or a commercial…
Registration first of all Ideas cannot be protected unless they are expressed in specific ways. That way, there are Rights assignable to the Ideas (IP- see Defination here ). Just as with any Rights, they, also come with Obligations. Thats how we begin to refer to intellectual property in the form…
