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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Intellectual Property Rights (incl. copyright) and licensing go hand-in-hand, but are not the same. Some initiatives/activities on the continent regarding
IP (incl. copyright, patents) and licensing below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">IP (incl. Copyright, Patents)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Regional Bureau for Africa
<a href="https://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/activities_by_unit/index.jsp?id=1006">
https://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/activities_by_unit/index.jsp?id=1006</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Pan African Intellectual Property Organisation (PAIPO) </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://au.int/en/node/32549">https://au.int/en/node/32549</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-style:normal">Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI)
</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="http://oapi.int/index.php/fr/">http://oapi.int/index.php/fr/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040;background:white">African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">ARIPO)
<a href="https://www.aripo.org/">https://www.aripo.org/</a><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Licensing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Read more about the 6 CC licenses at
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002060">Creative Commons also have African Chapters, with representatives from African countries.
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002060;background:#FEFEFE">Chapters serve as the central coordinators of the work of the individuals and institutions participating within a country in support of the Creative
Commons Global Network. A Chapter is constituted by all Network Members, Institutional Members and other contributing people and organizations working in a particular country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002060;background:#FEFEFE">African representatives include (see
</span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/">https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/</a>):<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002060;background:#FEFEFE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/cc-rwanda/"><span style="color:#35BBD8">CC Rwanda</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><br>
Representative to the Global Network Council: Evode Mukama<br>
Chapter Lead: Evode Mukama <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;line-height:1.8rem;text-rendering: optimizelegibility;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/cc-tanzania/"><span style="color:#35BBD8">CC Tanzania</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><br>
Representative to the Global Network Council: Emmanuel Malongo<br>
Chapter Lead: Aristarik Maro <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;line-height:1.8rem;text-rendering: optimizelegibility;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/cc-kenya/"><span style="color:#35BBD8">CC Kenya</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><br>
Representative to the Global Network Council: Elizabeth Oyange<br>
Chapter Lead: Elizabeth Oyange <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;line-height:1.8rem;text-rendering: optimizelegibility;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/cc-ghana/"><span style="color:#35BBD8">CC Ghana</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><br>
Representative to the Global Network Council: Raphael Berchie<br>
Chapter Lead: Felix Nartey <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;line-height:1.8rem;text-rendering: optimizelegibility;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/cc-nigeria/"><span style="color:#35BBD8">CC Nigeria</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><br>
Representative to the Global Network Council: Kayode Yussuf<br>
Chapter Lead: Helen-Chuma Okoro <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;line-height:1.8rem;text-rendering: optimizelegibility;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/cc-algeria/"><span style="color:#35BBD8">CC Algeria</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><br>
Representative to the Global Network Council: Kamel Belhamel<br>
Chapter Lead: Kamel Belhamel <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;line-height:1.8rem;text-rendering: optimizelegibility;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapters/cc-uganda/"><span style="color:#35BBD8">CC Uganda</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A"><br>
Representative to the Global Network Council: Brian Ssennoga<br>
Chapter Lead: Primah Kwagala<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:#FEFEFE"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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