000048083 001__ 48083 000048083 003__ SzGeWIPO 000048083 005__ 20230531201419.0 000048083 006__ m eo d 000048083 007__ cr bn |||m|||a 000048083 008__ 230530s2011 enk o 001 0 eng 000048083 020__ $$a9781452946863$$qeBook 000048083 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1380727866 000048083 040__ $$aSzGeWIPO$$beng$$erda$$cSzGeWIPO$$dCaBNVSL 000048083 041__ $$aeng 000048083 050_4 $$aKRX1115 000048083 08204 $$a346.6670482$$222 000048083 1001_ $$aBoateng, Boatema,$$eauthor. 000048083 24514 $$aThe Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here :$$bAdinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana. 000048083 264_1 $$aOxford :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2011 000048083 300__ $$a1 online resource 000048083 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000048083 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000048083 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000048083 5203_ $$aIn Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. Adinkra, made by stenciling patterns with black dye, and kente, a type of strip weaving, 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, particularly in East Asia, without any compensation to the originators of the designs. This book 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. The book investigates the compatibility of indigenous practices of authorship and ownership with those established under intellectual property law, considering the ways in which both are responses to the changing social and historical conditions of decolonization and globalization. Comparing textiles to the more secure copyright protection that Ghanaian musicians enjoy under Ghanaian copyright law, it demonstrates that different forms of social, cultural, and legal capital are treated differently under intellectual property law. The book then moves beyond Africa, expanding the author’s analysis to the influence of cultural nationalism among the diaspora, particularly in the United States, on the appropriation of Ghanaian and other African cultures for global markets. 000048083 588__ $$aOnline resource 000048083 650_0 $$aIntellectual property. 000048083 650_4 $$aAdinkra cloth$$xLaw and legislation$$zGhana 000048083 650_4 $$aKente cloth$$xLaw and legislation$$zGhana 000048083 650_4 $$aTextile fabric$$xLaw and legislation$$zGhana 000048083 650_4 $$aTextile Design$$xLaw and legislation$$zGhana 000048083 650_4 $$aCopyright$$xTextile fabrics$$zGhana 000048083 650_4 $$aIntellectual property$$zGhana 000048083 650_0 $$aCopyright. 000048083 85641 $$uhttps://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816670024.001.0001$$yView eBook 000048083 903__ $$aOxford Academic 000048083 980__ $$aOS