Piracy in Mexico
Marta Perozo - 14.02.2005 15:40
"San Juan de Dios makes big news. Police raids and state performativity against piracy retail in Guadalajara, Mexico"
In the San Juan de Dios market in Guadalajara, Mexico, retailers stop selling products that have been traded here for generations. Typical candies, sandals, leather handicrafts or regional clothing disappear from this popular market and give room to illegal copies of CDs and DVDs with the latest Hollywood film or MTV hit. This pirate modernization of the informal commerce contravenes intellectual property rights. Federal government, police and local media participate in displaying the “war on piracy”. Contradictorily, the more action the police take, the more sellers in the market retail illegal material. Thus, what are the police raids useful for?
A lecture by José Carlos Aguiar from the CEDLA (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation). He is currently finishing his PhD dissertation “Mercado pirata. On how piracy has transformed informal commerce in Mexico and what this phenomena reveals of its political system”. He discusses from a multidisciplinary analysis on the “privatization” of the informal commerce, an unintended consequence of globalization that exposes much of the ambiguities and contradictions of the Mexican state.
* The lecture will be held in English
Date: 24/02/05
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Place: Trans 10, Utrecht, room 0.17
Entry: free!
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