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The BISA Copyright Review was a project funded by the Ford Foundation, with the task of outlining the intersection of copyright and public interest in Brazil, India and South Africa, respectively.
Representatives from three organisations: The African Commons Project in South Africa, The Alternative Law Forum in India, and The Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV), part of the Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in Brazil, collaborated on this comparative study to tell the stories of copyright from within their countries.
As Lawrence Liangs explains in the Foreward:
"Brazil, India and South Africa are complicated countries, which defy any neat and easy definitions such as developed, and developing, global North and South. All three countries are marked by a sharp distinction between the constitutional elite who enjoy all the privileges of a global knowledge economy, and a constitutional underclass who are left out of the imagination of the information economy...Progressive scholarship and activism in the realm of copyright has largely been informed by developments in the U.S., where a First Amendment approach has dominated the debate...the experience of Brazil, South Africa and India has shown that alongside a commitment to individual rights, there is a deep commitment to the idea of collective rights."tags: johannesburg South Africa policy-law developing-world copyright review comaparative study intellectual property right
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Rebecca Kahn, The African Commons Project
Prashant Iyengar, The Alternative Law Forum
Paula Martini, The Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV), part of the Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School
With a Foreward by Lawrence Liang
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