Project
The work of culture in an age of informational capital
The major project is to outline and pursue further research on the forthcoming book, titled ‘Intellectual Property and its Publics: The Work of Culture in an Era of Informational Capital’ which explores new pressures and tendencies to treat culture as a resource and the growing propensity to claim rights on cultural grounds under neoliberal capitalism.
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Emerging Legal Geographies of Cultural Rights
This project explores the intensification of interest in culture as the basis for new forms of development and the assertion of new rights.
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Restitution of Gains from Profit-making Wrongs
The law of unjustified enrichment is about achieving corrective justice, and the aim of my project is about developing a more perfect way of attaining this goal by investigating the phenomenon of enrichment flowing from the invasion of another’s rights.
Publication
COPY THIS BOOK! What data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good
Heald, Paul J. 2020. COPY THIS BOOK! What data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/...
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The effect of copyright term length on South African book markets (with reference to the Google book project)
Heald, P. J. (2019). The effect of copyright term length on South African book markets (with reference to the Google book project). South Af...
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Local media: Western media in a context of orality in Africa
This book project in four parts intends to study how people, coming from a centuries-old orality, act in a context of copyright introduced by colonial and postcolonial authority.
Publication
‘Possessing Culture’: Political Economies of Community Subjects and Cultural Rights
Rosemary J. Coombe. 2009. ‘Possessing Culture’: Political Economies of Community Subjects and Cultural Rights. Ownership and Appropriation
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The complex economics of the public domain
Prominent economists (and US trade negotiators) assert that bad things happen when creative works fall into the public domain.
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Biotechnology and Legal Regulation: Personal Freedom, Risk Management and Human Dignity
The regulation of biotechnology is determined by a number of often conflicting legal values and social-economic interests.
