Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal practice that results from these countries’ lack of economic, social and cultural development. It argues that piracy needs to be discouraged, regulated, and finally overcome for legitimate business to flourish. In this article, the authors challenge this viewpoint and question whether the implementation of international copyright instruments in legislation across Africa really promotes those local economies or if it merely exposes them to neo-colonial exploitation. While the early international treaties on intellectual property rights (IPR) were formulated by European states and implemented in most parts of Africa through colonial laws, more ...
International intellectual property law (hereafter referred to as IP law) has an increasingly import...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) created the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Ag...
The proliferation of technology to produce pirated software has prompted key questions in policy dec...
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal ...
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal ...
In the English common law tradition copyright is seen as being in the nature of a property right and...
In the English common law tradition copyright is seen as being in the nature of a property right and...
PhDSince 1980, many countries have passed new intellectual property laws, or revised their laws. Th...
Intellectual property rights (IPR) concern that branch of law dealing with the regulation of the cre...
In the current efforts towards harmonizing IPRs regimes in the African continent, this paper provide...
With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions i...
This paper examines three tensions created by the manner in which Ghana’s TCEs are regulated under t...
The end of the twentieth century was marked by a sea change in global governance in the realm of int...
The end of the twentieth century was marked by a sea change in global governance in the realm of int...
The end of the twentieth century was marked by a sea change in global governance in the realm of int...
International intellectual property law (hereafter referred to as IP law) has an increasingly import...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) created the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Ag...
The proliferation of technology to produce pirated software has prompted key questions in policy dec...
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal ...
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal ...
In the English common law tradition copyright is seen as being in the nature of a property right and...
In the English common law tradition copyright is seen as being in the nature of a property right and...
PhDSince 1980, many countries have passed new intellectual property laws, or revised their laws. Th...
Intellectual property rights (IPR) concern that branch of law dealing with the regulation of the cre...
In the current efforts towards harmonizing IPRs regimes in the African continent, this paper provide...
With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions i...
This paper examines three tensions created by the manner in which Ghana’s TCEs are regulated under t...
The end of the twentieth century was marked by a sea change in global governance in the realm of int...
The end of the twentieth century was marked by a sea change in global governance in the realm of int...
The end of the twentieth century was marked by a sea change in global governance in the realm of int...
International intellectual property law (hereafter referred to as IP law) has an increasingly import...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) created the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Ag...
The proliferation of technology to produce pirated software has prompted key questions in policy dec...