Can Western consumers really help development by buying ‘world music’?

Professor Andy Pratt

This paper discusses the wider issues via a case study of music production web in Senegal and follows the tentacles of global production that spread back to Europe, and return profits there.The paper reflects upon the tensions between intellectual property rights in the cultural economy and global development. Does the current system of IPR serve the developing world, or does it serve to keep it in its place? Even within normative legal solutions, is enforcement, effective or wise?"

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