Sub-Sahara copyright: a barrier to information?

Now here's a subject that generates strong feelings -- "Sub-Saharan Africa, Education and the Knowledge Divide: Copyright Law, a Barrier to Information". That's the title of a dissertion written by Afro-Leo's friend Tania Rufus while she was reading for the LLM degree at the University of London. The lion has finally persuaded Tania to let him upload the pdf, which readers of this weblog can all now read and discuss here. He suspects that a some people may disagree with her conclusions, while others will support them strongly ...