The copyright thing doesn't work here : Adinkra and Kente cloth and intellectual property in Ghana
"In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. They each convey, through color, style, and adornment, the bearer's identity, social status, and even emotional state. Yet both textiles have been widely mass-produced outside Ghana without any compensation to the originators of the designs. In The copyright thing doesn't work here, Boatema Boateng focuses on the appropriation and protection of adinkra and kente cloth in order to examine the broader implications of the use of intellectual property law to preserve folklore and other traditional forms of knowledge. Comparing textiles to the more secure copyright protection that Ghanaian musicians enjoy under Ghanaian copyright law, she demonstrates that different forms of social, cultural, and legal capital are treated differently under intellectual property law. Boateng's rich ethnography brings to the surface difficult challenges to the international regulation of both contemporary and traditional concepts of intellectual property - and questions whether it can even be done"--P. [4] of cover
Print Book, English, ©2011
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