Lion's Share: Remaking South African Copyright

Lion's Share

Remaking South African Copyright
 
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ISBN13:9781478018964
ISBN10:1478018968
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:400 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Weight:567 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 11 illustrations
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Veit Erlmann examines the role of copyright law in post-apartheid South Africa and its impact on the South African music industry, showing how copyright is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, postcolonial governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more equitable society.

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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.

"Erlmann’s latest publication brings together a series of interesting and diverse ethnographic moments that illustrate the complex state of contemporary South African copyright. ...  The book encourages legal scholars, anthropologists, and musicologists to bring their heads together. The reflections that emerge in the text subsequently probe us to consider how one can communicate and interact meaningfully across all manner of divides within and beyond the academy."

Table of Contents:
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