To Pimp a Butterfly: EU Transparency Rules Expose African Content in AI Training, But Not How Creators Get Paid
To Pimp a Butterfly: EU Transparency Rules Expose African Content in AI Training, But Not How Creators Get Paid Centre for Afro-IP Law & Policy Research Since August 2025, providers of general-purpose AI models sold into the European Union have been required to publish summaries of the data used to train them, under Article 53(1)(d) […]
Nairobi Summit to Test Whether AfCFTA's IP ‘Mainstreaming’ Agenda Has a Theory Behind It
Nairobi Summit to Test Whether AfCFTA's IP ‘Mainstreaming’ Agenda Has a Theory Behind It Centre for Afro-IP Law & Policy Research The 7th All Africa Intellectual Property Summit convenes in Nairobi on 11–13 November 2026 under the theme of “mainstreaming” intellectual property into trade, industrial and creative policy. A new analysis published by the Centre […]
Who Owns an AI-Generated Work? African IP Law Has No Answer Yet
Who Owns an AI-Generated Work? African IP Law Has No Answer Yet Centre for Afro-IP Law & Policy Research Kenya’s Copyright Tribunal has issued what appears to be the continent’s first ruling squarely addressing artificial intelligence and authorship, holding in Aryeh Movement Limited v. Cynthia Beldina Akoth Okello (COPTA/E001/2025) that works generated solely by AI […]