Copyright law in Uganda is currently is governed by;
the Copyright and Neighbouring Act, 2006 and the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Regulations, 2010.
the Copyright and Neighbouring Act, 2006 and the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Regulations, 2010.
The Act proviedes that NO person of any kind shall produce, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, make available to the public, sale or offer for sale, lease or rent out or make public performances or import for distribution …audio visual recordings in Uganda except under a licence issued by the owner of the neighbouring rights or a Collecting society.
In Uganda, collecting society are catered for under Part VII of the Copyright and neighbouring Act, 2006. Also known as a copyright collecting agency or copyright collective management, the body is created by copyright law which engages in collective rights management. Collecting societies have the authority to license copyrighted works and collect royalties as part of compulsory licensing or individual licenses negotiated on behalf of its members. Collecting societies collect royalty payments from users of copyrighted works and distribute royalties to copyright owners.
In Uganda, the Uganda Federation of Movie Industry (UFMI) is the only registered and certified Copyright Collecting Society that manages the rights of all the Audiovisual works. As a Collecting Society, UFMI is the ONLY legitimate body for the Audiovisual Repertoire that issues Banderoles; which are security devices/holograms affixed on every audiovisual work for authenticity to the Ugandan Film market in a measure to enforce the Copyright Law and breakdown piracy.
The Uganda Federation of Movie Industry hereby prescribes the use of Banderoles that is hologram stamps in relation to audiovisual recordings/cinematograph films intended or offered for sale, rental, hiring, lending or otherwise distributed to the public for commercial purposes in Uganda.
Movie producers spend millions of money to produce films in the hopes that consumers will buy them. Consumers on the other hand expect to get what they pay for. Counterfeiters thus pirates cost both Movie producers and consumers major losses. Movie producers in Uganda are robbed of revenue while consumers are robbed of quality products and performance guarantees.
Security Holograms that is the Banderoles are employed to STOP counterfeiters in their tracks! Security Holograms dedicated to eliminating cheap imitation of movie products from the marketplace. We accomplish this by selling high quality, highly secure Banderole stickers designed to protect movie products from becoming counterfeited.
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards [UNBS] has established the standard of branding for any movie to be put on market. UFMI manages the rights of authors/producers; it also enforces the standards as regulated by the Uganda National Bureau of Standards; US 842: 2009.
Operating below such standards in the Uganda film marketplace is illegal and whosoever does commits an offence.
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