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Copyright And Education: Lessons On African Copyright And Access To Knowledge, Jeremy De Beer, Dick Kawooya, Tobias Schonwetter, Achal Prabhala
Copyright And Education: Lessons On African Copyright And Access To Knowledge, Jeremy De Beer, Dick Kawooya, Tobias Schonwetter, Achal Prabhala
Jeremy de Beer
The African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project is a pan-African research network of academics and researchers from law, economics and the information sciences, spanning Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Research conducted by the project was designed to investigate the extent to which copyright is fulfilling its objective of facilitating access to knowledge, and learning materials in particular, in the study countries. The hypotheses tested during the course of research were that: (a) the copyright environments in study countries are not maximising access to learning materials, and (b) the copyright environments in study countries …