Postcolonial Copyright Law - Lessons on Community and Coloniality From Thailand

This book appraises postcolonial perspectives to rethink the meaning of copyright, and makes suggestions for its future within the global landscape of intellectual property law, drawing on the experience of Thailand as a case study. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of copyright law, postcolonial and decolonial studies.

List of contents

Introduction: Copyright, Community, and Coloniality
Part I: Colonial Modernity
1. The Coloniality of Legal Modernity
2.The Quest for Civilisation
Part II: The Persistence of Coloniality
3. Thai Copyright in the Cultural Cold War
4. The War on Piracy
Part III: A Line of Escape
5. On Belatedness
6. The Cinema of Interactions
Part IV: Community After All
7. Copyright in (inter)action
8. Community Once More

About the author

Mespiti Poolsavasdi is a legal scholar specialising in copyright law and sociolegal studies. This book is based on his Ph.D. dissertation from Queen Mary University of London (2023), which critically and constructively examines the development of copyright law in Thailand from a postcolonial perspective, offering fresh insights aimed at reshaping the law. He is currently a lecturer at the Thammasat University Faculty of Law, where he teaches and conducts research on intellectual property law, with a particular focus on the intersections of law, culture, and society.

Product details

• Authors: Mespiti Poolsavasdi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032961118
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3296111-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / General, LAW / International, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, LAW / Intellectual Property / Copyright, International Law, Copyright Law