Some quick points: <br><br>I think it&#39;s important to differentiate between content and the delivery platform: A story on, say, diamond mining is a story on diamond mining. You can deliver it as a radio piece, a video (via internet or TV) or a written piece (via print or internet) or as a combination thereof. &#39;Multimedia&#39; merely means a combination of the above (i.e. includes the written word), and that&#39;s not really specific to Africa. Look at newspapers or magazines with a website, print edition, and possibly a TV show. <br>
<br>Also, &#39;local content in Africa&#39; is way too broad to be useful. &#39;Local content&#39; can be anything from an African investment bank writing a banking sector analysis to someone recording footage on a mobile phone and then putting it up on YouTube. I consider my content &#39;local content&#39; and find that the written word works best for it. <br>
<br>Finally: I wouldn&#39;t dismiss copy right protection entirely as stifling. Yes, the internet makes copyright enforcement a lot more difficult, but I think it&#39;s still a legitimate question to ask whether people who have put a lot of effort into a piece of work should not be able to enjoy the income from it.  <br>
<br>Regards, Andrea <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 August 2010 07:52, Badru Ntege <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ntegeb@one2net.co.ug">ntegeb@one2net.co.ug</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">









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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi All</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">I’m posting this on both I-network (UG) and Kictanet (KE) to
continue and expand dialogue that has been going on within the Linux User group
mailing list in UG.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">A few weeks ago I shared a website that we have been working
on as an experiment on local content.  This website presents an archive of
broadcast content from about 16 local radio stations going back to the
beginning of 2010.  <a href="http://www.yradio.ug/" target="_blank">http://www.yradio.ug/</a> 
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<p class="MsoNormal">I firmly believe that Africa’s local content will be mainly
multi-media as opposed to the written word.   This goes back to our
heritage where our history has been mainly through story telling passed down
from generation to generation as opposed to our European cousins,  where
the written word goes back for many generations.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">However the multimedia might fly in the face of what I call
historical IPR and Copyright legislation.  I do believe that this
legislation needs to be reviewed in favour of the current times where the
traditional methods are unenforceable.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">On the international scene African nations are being forced
to adopt some of this legislation which I do believe will stifle innovation and
growth.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">For Kenya I understand that  Kenya Music Copy Right
Association  has been in place and collects from those who play music from
local artists.  I would like us to look at what has happened to that
industry in the last few years since this was put in force.   In the
late 90’s  early 2000’s Kenya local music was  dominant in the
region.  However the industry has not grown as it should have and has been
overtaken by other markets like Uganda where strict enforcement does not exist
and the most frequently played music is local ugandan music.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Some have said that what yradio is doing is
theft.   I would like to here more views on this and also on the
notion that our future content for the continent will mainly be Multi-media.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Badru</p>

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