Voices From Innovative Business Projects in Brazil and Nigeria

Intellectual Property Watch caught up with innovative business leaders Regina Casé and Charles Igwe at the Access to Knowledge Conference in Geneva on 9 September. Look below to see what they had to say on piracy and cultural expression within their industries, and then click here to read more about it (IPW, Access to Knowledge, 12 September 2008).

Regina Casé of the Pindorama Produçoes Artisticas and the television programme Central da Periferia, or Centre of the Periphery, which documents music originating from and popular in the favelas of Brazil and other communities around the world, talks about the relationship between prejudice towards certain communities and the label of piracy, with help from Ronaldo Lemos from the Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) law school in Rio de Janeiro.

 

Charles Igwe of The Big Picture studios in Nollywood talks about realising the Nigerian film industry had more of a supply problem than a piracy problem, and cautions that it is not the existence of counterfeit product, but the impact the counterfeit product has on the legitimate product, that matters.

 

Charles Igwe of The Big Picture talks about the role of motion pictures in preserving Nigerian oral history in the knowledge economy.