Caribbean Law

        Notes on Intellectual Property Rights and Jamaica’s National Emblems; The Kanye West incident.   By Dr Abiola Inniss Ph.D. LLM                        Recently, the question of Intellectual Property Rights arose in the Kanye West and the Government of Jamaica saga. West and his group had gone to Jamaica to hold a series of church service/ concert events and had produced merchandise which combined his business interests and the use of the Jamaican Coat of Arms. After the concert the West team proceeded to advertise the merchandise for sale on his Sunday service website which was met by the disapprobation of the government of Jamaica which requested that he cease the use and sale of merchandise carrying the National symbols since he did not have permission to do so, he complied.         ...