`Culture`s will to copy ... [is] fuelled by the globalization process, which drivees the world to desire similar but different products, to acquire similar but different tastes.` (Laikwan Pang, Cultural Control, p8). What role does copyright discourse pla

The corporal operation of the Internet forms a forum where oppositional views concerning control of information collide . The extreme nature of the Internet supports a clash between the constructionist ideology that symbolizes the academic humanist community and the Romantic beliefs that symbolizes traditional legal community

This junction amongst humanistic studies , the intellectual property law and the Internet , joined with their attendant communities , engenders conflicts in thought and exploit and offers a generous basis from which to investigate intellectual property and information control

Though participants in humanist , legal , and global media

communities retain varied ideological beliefs and goals , their common interests meet in forming and treating communicative terms , whether textual , digital or auditory . More significant , these communities of participants communally , through socially raised ideologies , contribute in creating approaches toward authorship , possession , and property , and eventually in generating the power to form and manage knowledge . The dealings amongst these areas can be viewed practically and hypothetically

Globalization , therefore , can tell us diverse stories of the nation state , developing it are relationally and challenged internal and external boundaries . There would be few people concerned in globalization who would , as Green (1997 :157 ) seems to propose , believe that `the nation state was disappearing , even if it 's taken-for-granted status comes to be issued and attempts at self-reproduction become increasingly transparent . The spatial-temporal location of the nation-state is itself brought to the fore by globalization

Globalization is frequently taken to have a single course or logic that results in an augmented uniformity transversely the globe . However despite the influential effects of international capital and international media corporations , this is not sustainable and is not the stance adopted here . To presume that globalization is about , or results in , homogenization is to abridge the processes at work and , in a sense to distance oneself from the very...