Critical Examination of The Effectiveness of Uganda’s Copyright Law

This paper critically analyses the effectiveness of Uganda’s copyright law. Uganda's copyright legal regime is not elaborate enough and there is limited knowledge of its existence when it comes to authors of works in Uganda. Lack of proper enforcement of the existing laws is equally what has backtracked the protection of works resulting in widespread infringement and abuse of copyright-protected works under the guise of fair use. In this light, the study calls for an upgrade of technology to be done to help to collect societies execute the mandate efficiently because copyright infringement today involves the use of computers and technology especially with the widespread internet all over the country where many people access copyrighted content illegally like music online but where there is developed software to monitor such illegal activities, this would reduce copyright infringement. It is also the researcher’s recommendation that cooperating collective management societies should be established to enable cooperation between copyright owners and consumers of such content and a result to support such copyright owners in monitoring where and how much content is used. This reduces the illegal reproduction of copyrighted protected content. Keywords: Collective management, Common law, Copyright contents, Copyright law, Statutes