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Post-colonial copyright crisis : ウィキペディア英語版 | Post-colonial copyright crisis The Post-colonial Copyright Crisis of the mid-1960s is a particular phenomenon relating to the impact of the decolonisation process on former colonies (especially British colonies) in terms of literary publishing after the end of the Second World War. Previously education regimes in colonial countries had generally been under the control of the occupying power. The printing of educational texts took place in the occupying country, under copyright, most often to the specification of the relevant foreign ministry which would often produce texts with little in the way of knowledge that might lead to independent scientific or technological development.〔Peter Drahos, ''Information Feudalism'', The New Press, 2002, Chapter 5〕 == Problems ==
Domestic production of textbooks, especially those in indigenous languages, was severely restricted in several ways. The copyright regime, the capital costs and resources needed to set up and run a print mill and the lack of indigenous language material due to low literacy rates all contributed to an underdevelopment of the various post-colonial education systems once the decolonisation process was complete. UNESCO statistics show that in 1959, the Philippines and Burma each published 153 and 608 titles in their home languages respectively. A year later, statistics for India and Indonesia show 10,741 and 1,114 home language titles published respectively.〔Gunar Myrdal, ''Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations'', vol III, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1968. p1647〕 Shortage of learning materials in accessible languages soon presented the newly independent post-colonial governments with a problem. Due to the price-fixing actions of publishing cartels in London and New York, prices for educational materials, which were still under copyright, were far beyond the reach of ordinary people, and governments were unable to subsidise the quantity of books needed to construct a viable state-wide education system. Pirating the necessary texts (a radical option) was also difficult, given a lack of printing presses paper mills, and raw paper stock. Importing these materials also turned out to be prohibitively expensive.〔Drahos, Chapter 5〕
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