LEGALITY OF IMPLIED CONSENT INCOPYRIGHT LAW;THE IMPLICATION OF THE DECISION INANNETTE NAJJEMBA V MK PUBLISHERS LTD(CIVIL SUIT NO. 508 OF 2016).

The case concerned Annette Najjemba,an author of short children stories tilted “Our folktales”, who submitted her work to MK Publishers Limited, a publishing house, for publication. MK publishers went ahead to, without any written consent, adapt, alter, reproduce as audio stories and sell the abridged version of the short children’s stories as part of MK Audio Stories for Rwandan primary schools while claiming and attributing authorship to itself. MK Publishers contested the claim on grounds that Najjemba has given an “implied consent” and the company offered a royalty of 10% in accordance with its policy which was available for collection.