International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries

International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries
Author: Susan Isiko Štrba
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900423540X

In International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries: Exploring Multilateral Legal and Quasi-Legal Solutions, Susan Isiko Štrba demonstrates the challenge of access to printed copyrighted educational and research materials in developing countries and proposes institutional and normative solutions at national and international levels.

International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries

International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries
Author: Susan Isiko Strba
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Copyright
ISBN: 9786613891464

In International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries: Exploring Multilateral Legal and Quasi-Legal Solutions, Susan Isiko Štrba demonstrates the challenge of access to printed copyrighted educational and research materials in developing countries and proposes institutional and normative solutions at national and international levels.

International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries

International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries
Author: Susan Štrba
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004228993

In International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries: Exploring Multilateral Legal and Quasi-Legal Solutions, Susan Isiko Štrba demonstrates the challenge of access to printed copyrighted educational and research materials in developing countries and proposes institutional and normative solutions at national and international levels.

International Copyright and Access to Knowledge

International Copyright and Access to Knowledge
Author: Sara Bannerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316445119

The principle of Access to Knowledge (A2K) has become a common reference point for a diverse set of agendas that all hope to realize technological and human potential by making knowledge more accessible. This book is a history of international copyright focused on principles of A2K and their proponents. Whilst debate and discussion so far has covered the perspectives of major western countries, the author's fresh approach to the topic considers emerging countries and NGOs, who have fought for the principles of A2K that are now fundamental to the system. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book connects copyright history to current problems, issues and events.

Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions

Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions
Author: Ruth L. Okediji
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107132371

In this book, leading scholars analyze the important role played by copyright exceptions in economic and cultural productivity.

Conceptualizing Copyright Exceptions in China and South Africa

Conceptualizing Copyright Exceptions in China and South Africa
Author: Jia Wang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319718312

This book critically evaluates the current copyright law system in a digital environment from a comparative perspective. Since many developing countries modelled their copyright laws on more advanced jurisdictions, they have not benefitted from such a law as much as intended due to their inherently embedded social economic conditions. Moreover, the copyright law system has been under constant challenges from rapidly developing digital technology and the Internet. All in all, there is a pressing need for developing countries to reevaluate their copyright law in light of their national needs, the developmental stage of their economy, their culture and tradition, and their legal system. The book poses the question of whether copyright law should be reformed to fulfill its fundamental purpose of serving education and research that are in the public interest in the digital era? It examines whether the legal frameworks adequately address developing countries’ educational and research requirements in view of the opportunities and restrictions posed by electronic communication media. Further, it provides a comprehensive study that addresses the various critical issues relevant to the reform of the copyright law system and offers recommendations for developing countries to revamp their copyright law system to better serve their education and research sector.

Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development

Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development
Author: Sileshi Bedasie Hirko
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000477339

This book explores the interface between copyright and higher education, and their complementarities for the advancement of sustainable human development. In its broader sense, the concept of human development is noted as a set of freedoms and human capabilities that are essential for human flourishing. Adopting a rights-based human development and capability approach (HDCA), this book primarily examines the relevant policy and legal flexibilities under the existing international copyright system, and their implications for access to knowledge required for creative innovation and higher education. Exploring the interfaces between copyright and higher education, this book argues that an unbalanced and restrictive copyright system impedes reasonable access to knowledge, and stifles creative and learning freedoms or capabilities. In effect, a restrictive copyright system results in serious ramifications for sustainable human development. In view of its findings, this book underscores the need for rethinking copyright and reframing its relevant flexibilities as users' rights that are vital for promoting creative and learning capabilities towards sustainable human development. Further, the book emphasizes the complementarities between copyright and higher education, and their joint roles for sustainable human development. Given its application of the HDCA to explore ranges of interlinked topics, this book will be of a great interest to researchers across the fields of intellectual property law, innovation, global development, human rights, and higher education.

Access to Knowledge in Africa

Access to Knowledge in Africa
Author: Chris Armstrong
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1919895450

"This book is a result of an international and interdisciplinary research project known as the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project"--Acknowledgments.