I might have mentioned back in January that during my final oral exam for Copyright Law, I was nicely informed by my Nigerian Law mentor that my perspective on Authorship is entirely too Western and Enlightenment-based. True enough. One of my tasks this summer is to work on rectifying that. Thus this short list, mostly recommended by her:

The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law by Rosemary Coombe

William P. Alford, "Don't Stop Thinking About Yesterday: Why There Was No Indigenous Counterpart to Intellectual Property in Imperial China," 7 Journal of Chinese Law 3 (1993)

Paul Kuruk, "Protecting Folklore Under Modern Intellectual Property Regimes: A Reappraisal of the Tensions Between Individual and Communal Rights in Africa and the United States," 48 American University Law Review 769 (1999) [G 81-94]

Ruth Gana Okediji, "Has Creativity Died in The Third World? Some Implications of the Internationalization of Intellectual Property," 21 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 109 (1995)

Additions welcome.