Description: This timely collection featuring both empirical and theoretical essays brings together the latest reflections on piracy and its economic, political, cultural and theoretical consequences.
Brief description: Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel is a Berlin-based media critic, writer and teaches media theory at FH Mainz. He was internationally among the first scholars to study media piracy, when teaching at the University of the Philippines in Manila and later at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. His most recent book is "Southeast Asian Independent Cinema" (Hong Kong University Press 2012).
Review Quotes:
A Reader in International Media Piracy is a useful addition for those who study copyright issues in depth, and who want to add to their detailed analysis. -- Dom Caristi, International Journal of Communication