Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is a large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.
Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, the report tells two overarching stories: one tracing the explosive growth of piracy as digital technologies became cheap and ubiquitous around the world, and another following the growth of industry lobbies that have reshaped laws and law enforcement around copyright protection. These efforts have largely failed, and the problem of piracy is better conceived as a failure of affordable access to media in legal markets.
Get the full report (426 pages) or download it chapterwise from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) here.
“This remarkable study should be required reading for anyone concerned with copyright and enforcement, or with the challenges of cultural globalization.”
Gilberto Gil, musician and former Brazilian minister of culture
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