Erlmann Veit Erlmann

Lion's Share (eBook, PDF)

Remaking South African Copyright

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;Mbube"e; for its hit "e;The Lion Sleeps Tonight"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023593
• Artikelnr.: 72429010

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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