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Colin Darch

Colin Darch is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include the contemporary political history of Mozambique and intellectual property issues in Africa.

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Education and development on the high seas of copyright infringement

When is a pirate not a pirate? When he's trying to get an education. Alan Story, Colin Darch and Debora Halbert track the course of the criminalisation of copyright infringement from western bedrooms to the university campuses of the developing world.

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