Twongyeirwe Abenaitwe Isabel is a creative, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, mental health advocate and lawyer from Kampala Uganda, with musical projects out and available for streaming and purchase. She believes art is a great influence in inspiring positive thoughts and feelings in the world, to the end that actual change and action is directed at making this world a better and realer place.
She holds an LLB from Ugandan Christian University, for whom she participated in national, regional and international moot court competitions; by coming in 1st place at the EA Regional CIPIT Intellectual Property Moot Court Competitions in 2016, at the National CEHURD Moot Court Competition in 2016 and representing Uganda at the International Jessup Moot Court Competition organized by international Law firm White and Case in 2017. She also holds a diploma in Post Graduate Legal Studies from the Law Development Centre.
She has experience working as an Intellectual Property lawyer with Intellectual Property and Technology niche firms and participates in various workshops, symposiums and events organized, speaking concerning the realization of Intellectual Property rights for creatives in Uganda. Ultimately, her desire is to reduce the struggles creatives face by not being able to earn a living with their passion and craft as other creatives are able to do in other countries.
While Uganda’s legal regime provides for the economic rights of creatives, they are not well enforced, partly because many Ugandan creatives are ignorant of their own right to monetise their skills. To this end, she embarks in a lot of work for creatives through contract negotiation, drafting and intellectual property advisory services.
She has also contributed to papers adopted by the government of Uganda on behalf of the entertainment and business sector in advising in how the intellectual property of artists can be used to achieve Uganda’s National Development Plan III goals through the realization of economic rights of creatives especially. This is as intellectual property; digital trade and the fourth industrial revolution can be used to facilitate an inclusive and robust digital economy.
She continues to speak on various platforms and at various events seeking the increased awareness of the rights of creatives to earn and be legally protected in that regard with their work.
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