Legal compliance is one of the essential elements in the effective management of arts and cultural sectors in Tanzania. This legal position paper aims to assess factors that burden legal compliance in managing the arts and cultural sector through the legal framework of Tanzania's creative industry. Specifically, aimed at finding the extent to which authorities and actors are aware of the existing inadequate management legal framework; and determining factors limiting artists in complying with procedures codified with legal frameworks for arts and cultural rights.
In Tanzania, there is a bureaucratic contingency for an artist to be recognized and protected under the laws. This protection is anchored in both Tanzania’s international commitments and the country’s domestic laws, which, however, remain hardly known in the creative industry.
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