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Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright

Chris Armstrong, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya, Achal Prabhala, Tobias Schonwetter (eds.)

Claremont: UCT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp.

"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen ... das, sometimes in a misleading context, and often in an imprecise manner. For this reason, policymaking in the area of copyright, particularly in developing countries, has at best been guesswork and at worst uninformed. At the international level, debates and rule-making on copyright, as with other IP, are punctuated with propaganda, anecdotes and dogma. This is what Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and others have called ‘faith-based’ policymaking. Evidence to justify particular policies or laws is rare. Evidence of the real world impact of specific copyright or, for that matter, other IP laws or policies, is almost unheard of. The ACA2K project is unique because the work summarised in this book provides evidence both for policymaking and of the impacts of copyright in the real world. But this book, and the work of the ACA2K project, is not pioneering only because of the illuminating findings in all the eight study countries. It is pioneering also because of the replicable research methodology developed, and the interdisciplinary collaboration in an area that is usually seen as a preserve of lawyers. The project is also of immense importance because of its focus on education and learning materials in Africa, where copyright is always associated with the positive aspects of promoting African music and culture. This research tells us that while copyright laws and policies might have positive effects in one sector, the same is not necessarily universally true. Other project outcomes, such as building networked research capacity on the areas of IP, knowledge governance and development, and the exploratory work on examining the gender aspects of copyright and access, are also ground-breaking." (Foreword) more

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Community TV & Video in South Africa: From Special Event to Main Event? A Scoping Document, 1990-2005

Chris Armstrong

Johannesburg; Reading: Link Centre, Graduate School of Public & Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand; Gamos (2005), 46 pp.

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Techno-Hype or Info-Hope? Southern African Civil Society Tackles the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

Chris Armstrong

Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NIZA) (2004), 89 pp.

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The State of Democracy and Media Freedom in Southern Africa: Country Analyses

Chris Armstrong, Hendrik Bussiek, Jeanette Minnie, Rene Roemersma

Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NIZA) (2004), 130 pp.

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ICTs for Democracy: Media and the Post-War Reconstruction of Angola

Chris Armstrong

Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NIZA) (2004), 64 pp.

"Describes the work of Rádio Ecclesia (Luanda) and the ANGONET Wireless Internet Access Project in Huambo." (commbox)

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