Reflections on Music Copyright Justice

Digital Music Copyright Protection Dilemma: a Discussion on Draft Amendments of China's Copyright Law

On March 31,2012, China’s National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NCAC) published the Draft Amendment to the Copyright Law at its website to seek public feedback. Some articles in the current Draft Amendments, such as Articles 46 and 48, have attracted the most attention from the public, especially the music industry, because they involve unauthorized use of copyrig...

Traditional Music and Copyright -the Issues

Copyright is an intellectual property right, meaning that it can be bought or sold like any other form of property. The first owner of a copyright is the creator of a literary or artistic work. The owner of copyright in a work has the exclusive right to do, or to authorise anyone else to do certain things with the whole or any substantial part of the work. These things are called the acts restr...

CULTIVATING KNOWLEDGE DIVERSITY Reflections on Cognitive Justice, ICT and Development

The unique capabilities of the Internet seem to offer new ways to solve problems and make decisions. But this approach presents the Internet as a neutral technology, 'empty' of any bias that shapes the ways it homogenises or diversifies. Yet the bias of the Internet is inscribed in its technology. Can a biased technology cultivate the diversity of our knowledge? This paper proposes cognitive ju...

Natural Law, Justice and Democracy-Some Reflections on Three Types of Thinking About Law and Justice

Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections

This article critically reflects on the ways in which the global project of transitional justice is channelled or streamlined in its scope of application. Using the categories of when, to whom and for what transitional justice applies, it argues that transitional justice is typically constructed to focus on specific sets of actors for specific sets of crimes. This results in a fairly narrow int...