A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Camus College in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirement for an Award of The Bachelor Degree of Laws (LL.B) of Mzumbe University
This research, which is under the tittle: An Assessment of Tanzania Laws on the Protection of Folklore. The research categorized into five chapters, the first chapter lays out the general overview and introduction of the study, background of the problem, statement of the problem, the part carries the objectives of the study that being the core objective and the specific objectives that moves the study. Chapter two mainly covers the meaning of various concepts that arises out of the study such as folklore, property, intellectual property. Chapter three covers legal framework that controls and regulate the protection of folklore in Tanzania by regarding the international instruments and regional legal instruments that speaks, regulates and protects the concepts of folklore. Chapter four covers the findings and data analysis of the study on the concept of protection of folklore at this chapter an analysis is made on the absoluteness of the domestic law on the protection of folklore the different views can be drawn from this chapters analysis that The Copyright and Neighboring Act being the law that protects folklore as one among the intellectual property law in Tanzania in not a sufficient law, also an analysis has been made on the role of international law on the emphasis of protection of folklore. Lastly, also the researcher considered the protection of Folklore under a Human Rights Frame work. The last chapter imposes recommendations that are for effectiveness on the protection of folklore the recommendations comes into categories that are Recommendations to the Government basically on the reform of intellectual property laws in Tanzania, Recommendation to the United Nations and lastly the recommendations to the public at large.