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Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source

David M. Berry

London: Pluto Press (2008), xiii, 257 pp.

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Performance of the Arabic Book Translation Industry in Selected Arab Countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi-Arabia and Syria

Najib Harabi (ed.)

Zurich: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) (2007), 168 pp.

"Underperformance of the Arabic book translation industry is attributable to (among other factors) severe coordination failures. This is a state of affairs in which the inability of the different agents (translators, book publishers, suppliers, customers, and supporting organizations, state, and so ... more

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Diagnóstico del derecho de autor en América Latina

Carlos A. Fernández Ballesteros, Fernando Zapata López, Santiago Schuster Vergara, Ernesto Piedras, Ricardo Antequera Parilli, Delia Lipszyc

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2007), 182 pp.

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Von der Medienpolitik zur Media Governance?

Patrick Donges (ed.)

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2007), 268 pp.

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Bildrecherche für Film und Fotographie

Kai Holland, Françoise Kuntz

Konstanz: UVK (2007), 347 pp.

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The Internet and Governance in Asia: A Critical Reader

Indrajit Banerjee (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC); Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2007), 380 pp.

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Der Schutz des geistigen Eigentums in der VR China - Status Quo und Grenzen

Katja Levy

China Aktuell (Hamburg), volume 36, issue 3 (2007), pp. 29-60

"China's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection system is a hot topic on many international agendas. What is the current debate and what is the situation in China today? In a first step this analysis summarizes the status quo of IPR in China and current trends in the debate about it." (GIZ Li ... more

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The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Copyright in the Global South

Alan Story, Colin Darch, Deborah Halbert

Canterbury: Copy University of Kent Law SchoolSouth Research Group (2006), 207 pp.

"This unique dossier was assembled by the activist Copy South Research Group, a loosely-affiliated group of researchers based in a number of countries across the South and the North who seek to research the inner workings of the global copyright system and its effects on the Global South. The dossie ... more

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Intellectual Property, Education and Access to Knowledge in Southern Africa

Andrew Rens, Achal Prabhala, Dick Kawooya

Stellenbosch: Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa; International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD); United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2006), 69 pp.

"The first section in this paper examines the barriers to access to learning materials faced in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), analyzing the responsibility of intellectual property legislation within the complex structure of systems that are consequential to consumers and learners. In th ... more

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PICC Report on Intellectual Property Rights in the Print Industries Sector

Eve Gray, Monica Seeber (eds.)

Cape Town: Print Industries Cluster Council (2004), 205 pp.

"This report on copyright in the print industries sector was commissioned by the (South African) Department of Arts and Culture, through the Print Industries Cluster Council as part of a broader initiative to identify policy and development needs in the cultural industries. The report deals in parti ... more

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Le droit d'auteur en Afrique

Laurier Yvon Ngombe

Paris: L'Harmattan (2004), 178 pp.

"Un guide introductif utile sur les droits des auteurs (et ceux de l'industrie musicale) et les principaux aspects de la législation sur le droit d'auteur en Afrique. L'auteur fournit une analyse comparative des aspects théoriques et pratiques du sujet, traite de la question de la rémunération e ... more

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The Copyright Act 2001: A New Era for Copyright Protection in Kenya

Marisella Ouma

e-copyright Bulletin, issue July – September (2004), 13 pp.

"A comprehensive review of the new Kenya 2001 Copyright Act, which was passed by the Kenyan Parliament, after several rounds of consultations between the government and the different stakeholders and industry players. It came into force in February 2003 and repealed the 1966 Copyright Act. The most ... more

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Asian Copyright Handbook

Tamotsu Hozumi

Tokyo: AsiaPacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) (2004), 87 pp.

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Poor People's Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property in Developing Countries

J. Michael Finger, Philip Schule (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2004), x, 250 pp.

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Development in the Information Age: Issues in the Regulation of Intellectual Property Rights, Computer Software and Electronic Commerce

Ruth L. Okedijl

Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD); United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2004), 58 pp.

"The important balance between access to copyrighted works and protection for authors is vital for developing countries and LDCs. Despite provisions for limitations and exceptions to the rights granted to authors/ owners of protected works, the WIPO treaties represent minimum standards from which co ... more

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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Lawrence Lessig

New York: Penguin Press (2004), xvi, 345 pp.

"Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control ... more

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Guide on Surveying the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2003), 104 pp.

"The Guide contains information and recommendations for research teams and copyright professionals embarking on the stimulating and challenging study of the contribution of the copyright-based industries to the national economy. This publication is intended as a practical tool to facilitate national ... more

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Derecho de la comunicación: Aportes para una nueva disciplina jurídica

José Perla Anaya

Lima: Asociación Iberoamericana de Derecho de la Información y de la Comunicación (AIDIC) (2003), 342 pp.

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Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy
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London: Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), 2nd ed. (2002), viii, 178 pp.

"Too often the interests of the “producer” dominate in the evolution of IP policy, and that of the ultimate consumer is neither heard nor heeded. So policy tends to be determined more by the interests of the commercial users of the system, than by an impartial conception of the greater public go ... od. In IPR discussions between developed and developing countries, a similar imbalance exists. The trade ministries of developed nations are mainly influenced by producer interests who see the benefit to them of stronger IP protection in their export markets, while the consumer nations, mainly the developing countries, are less able to identify and represent their own interests against those of the developed nations. Thus we recognise that the rules and practices of intellectual property, and how they evolve, are the product of political economy. Developing countries - and in particular poor consumers of products which may be protected by IP rights - negotiate from a position of relative weakness. There is a fundamental asymmetry in relationships between developed and developing countries, based ultimately on their relative economic strength. The negotiations on TRIPS in the Uruguay Round are but one example. Developing countries accepted TRIPS not because at the time the adoption of intellectual property protection was high on their list of priorities, but partly because they thought the overall package offered, including the reduction of trade protectionism in developed countries, would be beneficial. Now many of them feel that the commitments made by developed countries to liberalise agriculture and textiles and reduce tariffs, have not been honoured, while they have to live with the burdens of the TRIPS agreement. The agreement on a new “development” WTO Round at Doha last year recognises that this bargain, between developed and developing countries, needs to be made explicit and meaningful. The difficulty for developing countries in this context is that they are “second comers” in a world that has been shaped by the “first comers”. And because of that, it is a very different world from that in which the “first comers” developed. It is a cliché to say that we live in an age of globalisation, when the world economy is becoming more integrated. It is an article of faith in the international community that integration on appropriate terms into the world economy is a necessary condition for development. The question from our point of view is what are the appropriate terms for that integration in the field of IPRs. Just as the now-developed countries moulded their IP regimes to suit their particular economic, social and technological circumstances, so developing countries should in principle now be able to do the same." (Overview, page 7-8) more

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Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite

New York: New Press (2002), xvii, 253 pp.

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