Keynote
Power and Ownership in Global Copyright Relations
Ruth Okediji
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Music culture and the copyright industry move within a globalized context. What concepts of ownership and authorship become dominant thereby? And how do they contradict manifold creative practices worldwide? International treaties and trade policy-based legal systems reproduce colonial hierarchies. How can these power relations be de-colonized? Protective rights for indigenous groups’ traditional forms of culture and knowledge are accompanied by completely new approaches as well as old questions: What do community-based control and utilization models look like? How can expanded protectability be best reconciled with accessibility to the public domain?
With Ruth Okediji (Harvard Law School)