Any institution, organization or copy shop/bureau which is involved in mass reproduction of the above category of works needs to take up a license with Kopiken. This is because not doing so means that the reproduction is unauthorized by the copyright owners (authors and publishers) and is therefore illegal and an offence under the Kenya Copyright Act 2001. The Act lays out penalties for such illegal reproduction, and these include hefty fines, jail terms, damages, injunctions as well as seizure of equipment used to reproduce and the reproductions themselves.

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