2009/3/10 Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net>: > Milos Rancic wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 2009/3/9 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> So, they don't care about their own copyright law. >>>> >>> Common law is very much driven by legal precedent. Looking to see what >>> similar legal systems have done is a fairly common approach. >>> >>> That said Kenya allows for up 6 years of jail time for some forms of >>> copyright infringement (and two for others) so I suggest it is >>> probably a good idea to take Kenyan law seriously. >>> >> You don't need to Serengeti and explain it to Maasai people. Try with >> suburbs of Nairobi :) There are parts of the world which really don't >> give a shit for the copyright law :) > > Yep! The only reason they may even have such a law would be to fulfil a > quid pro quo extorted by the World Bank as a prerequisite for foreign aid. > Any application of such laws is seriously unrealistic unless an > offended foreigner wants to finance the prosecution. > > Ec >
No they would have had such a law on independence due in inheriting it from the UK. The reason they now have a law with the kind of backing France would view as excessive (two year terms and a special state backed body to go after copyright infingers) is US pressure. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
