In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious
revision of its intellectual property system. In Lion's Share Veit
Erlmann traces the role of copyright law in this process and its
impact on the South African music industry. Although the South
African government tied the reform to its postapartheid agenda of
redistributive justice and a turn to a postindustrial knowledge
economy, Erlmann shows how the persistence of structural racism and
Euro-modernist conceptions of copyright threaten the viability of
the reform project. In case studies ranging from antipiracy police
raids and the crafting of legislation to protect indigenous
expressive practices to the landmark lawsuit against Disney for its
appropriation of Solomon Linda's song "Mbube" for its hit "The Lion
Sleeps Tonight" from The Lion King, Erlmann follows the intricacies
of musical copyright through the criminal justice system,
parliamentary committees, and the offices of a music licensing and
royalty organization. Throughout, he demonstrates how copyright law
is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, postcolonial
governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more
equitable society.
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