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Photographer drags New Vision to court for copyright infringement, seeks Shs400m in compensation

Norman Mwambazi by Norman Mwambazi
December 18, 2019
in News
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Alex Esagala with his lawyer the day he filed the suit at High Court in Kampala. COURTESY PHOTO.

Alex Esagala with his lawyer the day he filed the suit at High Court in Kampala. COURTESY PHOTO.

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Last month, we reported how a one Alex Esagala, a freelance photojournalist served New Vision a notice of intention to sue for copyright infringement.

Alex Esagala with his lawyer at the High Court today.

According to Esagala, New Vision’s Luganda newspaper Bukedde used a photo he had taken “under extreme circumstances including Police brutality” in April , 2018 during Makerere University strikes. The photo was subsequently published by Daily Monitor on April 17, 2018.

Esagala’s photo.

However, on November 25, 2019, Bukedde used the same photo in one of their stories published about strikes in Makerere University without his permission, and without accrediting him, something that infringes on his Copyright, according to the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act, 2016.

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Alex Esagala’s photo used in Bukedde’s story.


Today, Esagala has gone ahead to sue New Vision Printing and Publishing company limited in the Commercial Division of the High Court in Kampala.

Through his lawyers Kaggwa and Kaggwa Advocates, Esagala seeks Shs400 million as compensation for damages (Shs200 million in usage fees and Shs200 million in damages). The suits also says that the Defendant will meet the costs of the suit.

Esagala bases these claims to the fact that Bukedde newspaper ‘s daily circulation is estimated at over 40,000 copies a day and a combined following of over 2 million people on social media, so his work was served to all those people without him receiving any kind of gratuity from it.

The photo that is a subject of this suit won the photo of the year at the Uganda Press Photo Awards in 2018, an event that was sponsored by the European Union, Canon, Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) and the United States Embassy in Uganda.

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