Kenya’s Copyright Tribunal found insufficient evidence in the record whether a literary work for a series of “Bible Scripture Stories” that Cynthia Beldina Akoth was commissioned to write for the Aryeh Movement.
The dispute centered around who owned the copyright (if any) to the work–Akoth or Aryeh.
Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) originally registered the work in Aryeh’s name. Akoth appealed that decision to the Tribunal.
During the course of the proceedings, a secondary issue arose whether the literary work in question even qualified for copyright because Akoth had reportedly used AI to (help) write it. Unfortunately, the Tribunal found there was a lack of evidence in the record on how the work was created.
But, helpfully, canvassing U.S., UK, and EU law, and Kenya’s Copyright Act, the Tribunal stated:
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