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Subjecting to liability for damages, interdict, delivery of infringing copies (section 24)… “any person who…does or causes any other person to do … any act which the owner has the exclusive rights to do or to authorize” (section 23) to criminal liability “any person who … without the authority of the owner of the copyright: … distributes … to such an extent that the owner of the copyright is prejudicially affected, articles which he knows to be infringing copies of the work (section 27).

This report was produced by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) in the context of the OpenNet Africa initiative (www.opennetafrica.org) which monitors and promotes internet freedoms in east and southern African countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Other country reports have been written for Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The country reports, as well as a regional 'State of Internet Freedoms in East Africa' report, are available at www.opennetafrica.org. The production of this report was supported by the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos), the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC). State of...

This paper is part of a research project conducted on intermediary liability in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. The paper draws on the independent research conducted by in-country researchers. The research includes five reports, as well as blog posts. The entire research is available at http://iia.apc.org. This paper and the accompanying reports are licensed under a Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0).