The Copy/South Dossier - Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South

THE COPY/SOUTH DOSSIER
Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South
Edited by Alan Story Colin Darch and Debora Halbert
Researched and published by The Copy/South Research Group May 2006
Published by the Copy / South Research Group Website: http://www.copysouth.org E-mail address: contact@copysouth.org
ISBN: 978-0-9553140-0-1 (downloadable online edition) 978-0-9553140-1-8 (printed edition)
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CONTENTS
SOME INITIAL WORDS… ..............................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................... 7 SECTION 1 – THE GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SYSTEM IS PRIVATISING HUMANITY’S COMMON CULTURAL HERITAGE............................................................11 1.1 Introduction................................................................................................................... 11 1.2 How privatisation and monopolisation discourage creativity and invention ............... 13 1.3 Why this tendency is against the interests of creators and society in general .............. 17 1.4 Monopoly ownership and its consequences for artistic expression ............................... 20 1.5 Average artists and conglomerates cannot benefit from the same copyright system .... 23 SECTION 2 – THE ECONOMICS OF ...