African Intellectual Property Jurisprudence- #SamiáiRêportÍ

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!The past week has been busy in the creative industry in Africa as Nigeria host 'CANEX WKND 2026' and 'AFRIFF 15', two events that seeks to make the creative industry in Africa (Nollywood, Afro music, fashion, Naija lifestyle, culture and new digital-making-available metrics) profitable, sustainable and impactful as an industrial sector. This work/research done in 2018 as part of my SJD dissertation had earlier looked into similar themes deliberated in Lagos from November 1-8, 2026, within these events. "If Nollywood filmmakers insist on its genre purity, it may lose certain foreign collaboration, and without external collaboration, its influence in the international scene becomes further complicated. Therefore, Nollywood will have to balance its creative independence and creative growth goal in its effort to expand outside Nigeria. A more inclusive choice for Nollywood may be a middle course of keeping its core genre, while undertaking a modest adjustment in its cinematic themes for its foreign audience." Samiái Andrews, SJD,(PDF) Nollywood-Innovation, creativity, and culture as Business*10.13140/RG.2.2.19461.72169

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!In their strategy to expand the creative coast and fields Nigerian creators and other African creators have been premiering their craft-movies, music, arts forms, food and fashion in jurisdictions outside their primary countries. These activities involve collaboration and partnering with others-non- African institutions, persons and African alike. We examine the implication of these strategies upon the Creative uniqueness of Nollywood, Afro-music, etc. and its overall IP implications.

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!This episode is dedicated to a great creative and Nollywood's finest, Late Mr. Francis Duru.

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!Recently, the US Embassy in Nigeria, through its new Consul General Hudspeth engaged Nigerian creators-music, fashion, music etc industries- in an initiative to build a connection between Hollywood and Nollywood. An impactful partnership, collaboration or joint initiative in the creative industries would always yield substantive political, economic and social dividends if properly done. In this episode we set out to add our voices and opinion on how such collaboration may evolve symbiotically, sustainable and jurisprudentially.I started with a background of an article I wrote in 2020 on this theme which would help our listeners have a broader understanding of the episode: The Conversation (2020)-Netflix Naija: creative freedom in Nigeria’s emerging digital space?

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!I begin a special series of answering questions sent to us by listeners. This Season 2 Episode 6, answers the question: "How do I protect a Nollywood film's copyright across several African countries?"Further check out my website (Prof. Samuel Samiái Andrews, SJD, LL.M, LL. B (Hons), BL, LL.M) and YouTube Channel ( A Guide to Intellectual Property Law and the African Film Industry) "Legal Environment of Filmmaking" for detail presentations that answers this question.academia.eduProf. Samuel Samiái Andrews, SJD, LL.M, LL. B (Hons), BL, LL.MA Guide To Intellectual Property Law & the African Film Industry | Prof. Samuel Samiái Andrews, SJD, LL.M, LL. B (Hons), BL, LL.M - Academia.eduA Guide To Intellectual Property Law & the African Film Industry | Prof. Samuel Samiái Andrews, SJD, LL.M, LL. B (Hons), BL, LL.M - Academia.eduA Guide To Intellectual Property Law & the African Film Industry | Prof. Samuel Samiái Andrews, SJD, LL.M, LL. B (Hons), BL, LL.M - Academia.edu

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!I continue in this episode 5 (Please Listen to S.2 E. 5) the examination and analysis of how my visit to cities/countries in the course of my professional duties as an IP academic, IP scholar, IP Professor and IP enthusiast have intersected and impacted the teaching/research of the subject/specialty.

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!As an Intellectual property scholar/academic you should include traveling to different places, cities, countries as part of your professional programs. These travels would add something "new" into your scholarship. Your interaction with different culture, people, beliefs and life experiences are part of your teaching, learning and research strategy/methodology that will make you that exceptional teacher you ought to be.

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!Continuing the discussion and analysis of the ongoing controversy surrounding the assertion that AI will destroy humanity by proponent of government control and regulation of the technology.

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!In recent weeks there has been parade of horrible about AI coming from insiders (ex-employees) of one of the front runners (Anthropic) company in the AI sector. They claim that AI has the capacity to destroy humanity in less than 10 years. However, others have responded to counter their perceived dooms day alarm as a ploy to make way for government ultra control of AI systems. What is the truth? We will find out soon. In the meantime, how is African responding to these events> More concerning to this program (AIPJ), how are the National AI Policies and laws set to promote the evolving film creative industries like Nollywood (Nigeria), Kennywood (Kenya) and others in Africa,

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note and I promise to return your calls. Thank you and keep them coming!Nollywood was coined as a descriptive phrase to identify the indigenous filmmaking craft taking place in Nigeria in the 1990s by a New York Times columnist, Norimitsu Onishi in a 2002 article.