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Nwauche, Enyinna --- "Intellectual property and creative industries policy in Africa" [2018] ELECD 181; in Brown, E.L. Abbe; Waelde, Charlotte (eds), "Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 85

Book Title: Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries

Editor(s): Brown, E.L. Abbe; Waelde, Charlotte

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786431165

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Intellectual property and creative industries policy in Africa

Author(s): Nwauche, Enyinna

Number of pages: 6

Abstract/Description:

This chapter undertakes an overview of how Africa’s intellectual property rights frameworks have impacted its creative industries through an understanding of the values, principles and policies through which African States have sought to leverage intellectual property rights to ensure that creative industries become a key part of African economies. To accomplish this task, this chapter sets forth, examines and evaluates different propositions that reflect how intellectual property frameworks have been deployed, neglected or irrelevant to Africa’s creative industries. To undertake its objective this chapter adopts a broad understanding of creative industries as a reference to industries that depend in varying degrees on cultural values, ideas, symbols and rituals.