24.(1) Copyright shall be conferred by this section on every work, other than a broadcast
which is eligible for copyright and which
(a) being a literary, musical or artistic work or any audio-visual work, is first published in Kenya; or
(b) being a sound recording, is made or first
published in Kenya; or
(c) being a broadcast, is transmitted from
transmitters situated in Kenya.
(2) Copyright conferred on a work by this section shall have the same duration as is provided
for in section 23 in relation to a similar work.
25.(1) Copyright is conferred under this section on which has been created of Government
pursuant to a commission from the Government or such international body or non-governmental
body as may be. prescribed, and on which no copyright has been conferred under section 23(1) or 24
(1).
(2) Copyright conferred by this section on a literary, musical or artistic work,. shall subsist
until the end of the expiration of fifty years from the end of the year in which it was first published.
(3) Copyright conferred by this section on any audio-visual work, photograph, sound
recording or broadcast shall have the same duration as is provided for by section 23 in relation to a
similar work.
(4) Sections 23 and 24 shall not confer copyright on works to which this section applies.
26. (1) Copyright in a literary, musical or artistic work or audio-visual work shall be the exclusive
right to control the doing in Kenya of any of the following acts, namely the reproduction in any
material form of the original work or its translation or. adaptation, the distribution to the public of
the work by way of sale, rental, lease, hire, loan, importation or similar arrangement, and the
communication to the public and the broadcasting of the whole work or a substantial part thereof,
either in its original form or in any form recognizably derived from the original; but copyright in any
such work shall not include the right to control
(a) the doing of any of those acts by way of fair dealing for the purposes of scientific research,
private use, criticism or review, or the reporting of current events subject to acknowledgement of the
source;
(b) the reproduction and distribution of copies, or the inclusion in a film or broadcast, of an artistic
work situated in a place where it can be viewed by the public;
(c) the incidental inclusion of an artistic work. in a film or broadcast;
(d) the inclusion in a collection of literary or musical works of not more than two short passages
from the work in question if the collection is designed for use in a school registered under the
Education Act or any university established by or. under any written law and includes an acknowledgement of the title and authorship of the work;