Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Administering Culture: Law, State and Technology in the Remaking of Intellectual Property in Brazil

该项目探讨了技术创新和“数字包容”对知识产权制度和做法的影响。该研究将通过比较两个领域中两种不同的技术辅助共享实践，研究知识产权保护、音乐、新技术和国家的创新形式之间的关系。第一个竞技场是一个流行的运动，促进和分发音乐“免费”。第二个竞技场涉及一个政府行政计划，该计划向边缘化的文化生产者提供“微型多媒体工作室”，并要求“开源”许可。该研究包括访谈、制作工作室调查、档案数据分析和民族志。该项目的结果将增进我们对知识产权实践在技术转型条件下如何变化以及这种变化对经济的影响的理解。此外，研究结果将与围绕技术包容性、知识产权和著作权正在进行的政策辩论相呼应。

This project explores the implications of technological innovation and "digital inclusion" on intellectual property regimes and practices. The research will examine relationships among innovative forms of intellectual property protection, music, new technologies, and the state, by comparing two different technologically-assisted sharing practices in two arenas. The first arena is a popular movement promoting and distributing music "for free." The second arena involves a governmental administrative program that gives out "micro-multimedia studios" to marginalized cultural producers and mandates "open-source" licensing. The research involves interviews, a survey of production studios, archival data analysis, and ethnography.The results of this project will enhance our understanding of how intellectual property practices change under conditions of technological transformation and the economic repercussions of such changes. Further, the results will speak to the ongoing policy debate around technological inclusion, intellectual ownership and authorship.