1st Edition
Postcolonial Copyright Law Lessons on Community and Coloniality from Thailand
Introduction: Copyright, Community, and Coloniality
Part I: Colonial Modernity
1. The Coloniality of Legal Modernity
2.The Quest for Civilisation
Part II: The Persistence of Coloniality
3. Thai Copyright in the Cultural Cold War
4. The War on Piracy
Part III: A Line of Escape
5. On Belatedness
6. The Cinema of Interactions
Part IV: Community After All
7. Copyright in (inter)action
8. Community Once More
Biography
Mespiti Poolsavasdi is a legal scholar specialising in copyright law and sociolegal studies. This book is based on his PhD dissertation from Queen Mary University of London (2023), which critically and constructively examined the development of copyright law in Thailand from a postcolonial perspective, offering fresh insights aimed at reshaping the law. He is currently a lecturer at the Thammasat University Faculty of Law, where he teaches and conducts research on intellectual property law with a focus on the intersections of law, culture, and society.
