Lion's Share: Remaking South African Copyright
Duke University Press, 2022
eISBN: 978-1-4780-2359-3 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1896-4 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-1632-8
Library of Congress Classification ML3917.S62E75 2022
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eISBN: 978-1-4780-2359-3 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1896-4 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-1632-8
Library of Congress Classification ML3917.S62E75 2022
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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.
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