Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania

Ofisi ya Hakimiliki Tanzania

To protect the rights of content creators...
Maswali Yaulizwayo Mara kwa Mara
These are the paternity rights (to claim authorship) and to prevent any derogation, mutilation of the work.
Economic rights of Authors are the Exclusive Rights which are a bundle of rights that enable the authors to have equitable remuneration from his creativity. These are provided for under section 9 of Act No.7 of 1999
Copyright is an exclusive right and gives its creator or owner of a work a “basket of rights” which includes the sole legal right to reproduce the copyrighted work in any material form, to publish the work, to perform the work in public, to make cinematograph/ audiovisual film or a recor...
In Tanzania copyright lasts for the lifetime of the author and fifty years after the death of the author. In case of joint authorship copyright shall be protected during the life of the last surviving author and fifty years after his death In case of a work published anonymously or under pseud...
Authors of original Works, derivative works in a tangible form such as literary and artistic works are entitled to copyright protection in works by the sole fact of the creation of such works. These works are:- books, pamphlets and other writings, including Computer programs. lectures, addre...
These are secondary rights of copyright which performers, producers and broadcasters are entitled to. Section 31 to Section 35 of Act No. 7 of 1999 provide for the neighbouring rights.
The Act applies to national works from Tanzania Mainland and Foreign Works as per section 3(6) (a) of Act No.7 of 1999 (National Treatment principle) and Regulation 15 of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights (Production and Distribution of Sound and Audiovisual Recordings) G.N.No 18 of 2006.
Copyright is governed by the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act No 7 of 1999 (CAP 218 RE 2002).
Copyright means an exclusive right granted to the authors or creators of “original works” fixed in a tangible form. It is the sole legal right to print, publish, perform film, record a literally; artistic or musical work. Copyright does not protect ideas which have not been reduced to ma...