1st Edition

Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America Rethinking Creativity and the Common Good

Edited By Víctor Goldgel-Carballo, Juan Poblete Copyright 2020
236 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America is the first sustained effort to present an alternative framework for understanding piracy and contemporary challenges to global discourses on intellectual property (IP) in the Americas. While piracy might just look like theft and derivative reproduction from the perspective of many right-holders, the contributors to this volume go beyond... Read more

Introduction

Juan Poblete and Víctor Goldgel-Carballo

1. How Trinkets Became Counterfeits: Value and Intellectual Property in a Low-income Market in Brazil

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado

2. The Piracy Problem: Indigeneity, Hybridity, and the Racial Politics of IP Enforcement in Guatemala

Kedron Thomas

3. Piracy and/as Legitimate Business

Phillip Penix-Tadsen

4. Piracy as Media Practice: The Informal Market of Music and Videos in Peru

Santiago Alfaro Rotondo

5. Context as Content in Chilean Community Media

Jennifer Ashley

6. ‘Feeling Pirate’ as Media Affect in Mexican-American Experience

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

7. From Piracy as a Crime to Piracy as a Necessity: Territorial Inequalities and the Socially Necessary Market in Brazil

Fábio Tozi

8. Book Piracy in Chile and the Proletarianization of Literature in Pedro Lemebel

Juan Poblete

9. Pirate Book Aesthetics in Contemporary Argentina

Víctor Goldgel-Carballo

10. Between Abundance and Appropriation: Indeterminate Critiques of Global IP Schemes

Zac Zimmer

11. The Creative Copy: Agency and Fashion at a Market for Counterfeited Garments

Matías Dewey

Appendix: A Primer on Intellectual Property

Juan Poblete 

Biography

Víctor Goldgel-Carballo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Juan Poblete is Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz.

"The essays in this collection expertly localize unauthorized use in Latin America, integrating on-the-ground production with globalizing discourses of circulatory legitimacy. The book should be required reading for those interested in the increasingly important role of digital textuality in emerging economies." Alexander S. Dent, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The George Washington University