Lion's Share : Remaking South African Copyright by Veit Erlmann (2022, ...

Duke University Press

Lion's ShareRemaking South African Copyright\nAuthor(s): Veit Erlmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478016328, 978-1478016328\nSynopsis\nIn the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system. In Lions 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 Lindas song \""Mbube\"" for its hit.