Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America

Víctor Goldgel-Carballo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Juan Poblete is Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz.

• Introduction 1. How Trinkets Became Counterfeits: Value and Intellectual Property in a Low-income Market in Brazil 2. The Piracy Problem: Indigeneity, Hybridity, and the Racial Politics of IP Enforcement in Guatemala 3. Piracy and/as Legitimate Business 4. Piracy as Media Practice: The Informal Market of Music and Videos in Peru 5. Context as Content in Chilean Community Media 6. ‘Feeling Pirate’ as Media Affect in Mexican-American Experience 7. From Piracy as a Crime to Piracy as a Necessity: Territorial Inequalities and the Socially Necessary Market in Brazil 8. Book Piracy in Chile and the Proletarianization of Literature in Pedro Lemebel 9. Pirate Book Aesthetics in Contemporary Argentina 10. Between Abundance and Appropriation: Indeterminate Critiques of Global IP Schemes 11. The Creative Copy: Agency and Fashion at a Market for Counterfeited Garments Appendix: A Primer on Intellectual Property

"The essays in this collection expertly localize unauthorized use in Latin America, integrating on-the-ground production with globalizing discourses of circulatory legitimacy. The book should be required reading for those interested in the increasingly important role of digital textuality in emerging economies." — Alexander S. Dent, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The George Washington University