Lion's Share

Remaking South African Copyright

Veit Erlmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478016328 (ISBN)

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In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system. In Lion’s Share Veit Erlmann traces the role of copyright law in this process and its impact on the South African music industry. Although the South African government tied the reform to its postapartheid agenda of redistributive justice and a turn to a postindustrial knowledge economy, Erlmann shows how the persistence of structural racism and Euro-modernist conceptions of copyright threaten the viability of the reform project. In case studies ranging from antipiracy police raids and the crafting of legislation to protect indigenous expressive practices to the landmark lawsuit against Disney for its appropriation of Solomon Linda’s song "Mbube" for its hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” from The Lion King, Erlmann follows the intricacies of musical copyright through the criminal justice system, parliamentary committees, and the offices of a music licensing and royalty organization. Throughout, he demonstrates how copyright law is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, postcolonial governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more equitable society.

Veit Erlmann is Professor and Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas, author of Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality and Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West, and editor of Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening, and Modernity.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. “We Do Not Speak the Same Language” 1
1. Aspirations and Apprehensions: Toward an Anthropology in Law 16
2. The Past in the Present: Copyright, Colonialism, and “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” 62
3. Assembling Tradition, Representing Indigeneity: The Making of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 28 of 2013 109
4. Circulating Evidence: The Truth about Piracy 174
5. Which Collective? The Infrastructure of Royalties 232
Conclusion. How to Speak the Same Language, or at Least Try To 301
Appendix. Southern African Copyright: The Basics 309
Notes 315
Bibliography 345
Index 371

Erscheinungsdatum	15.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	12 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-13	9781478016328 / 9781478016328
Zustand	Neuware