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    Creative industries and informal economies: the case of Nigerian video

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    Author
    LOBATO, RAMON
    Date
    2009
    Source Title
    International Journal of Cultural Studies
    Publisher
    Sage
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    LOBATO, RAMON
    Affiliation
    Faculty of Arts, Culture and Communication
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
    Citations
    Lobato, R. (2009). Creative industries and informal economies: the case of Nigerian video. International Journal of Cultural Studies.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/26770
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    The final, definitive version of this paper will be published in International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010 by SAGE Publications Ltd (http://online.sagepub.com), All rights reserved. © Ramon Lobato.

    Abstract
    Since the emergence of its video industry in the 1990s, Nigeria has become the largest film producer in the world by output. Its informal economy now provides around two thousand films a year for a pan-African audience, and the industry has grown rapidly without assistance from the state, NGOs, or the film festival circuit. This article analyses the rise of ‘Nollywood’ through the lens of current debates in media studies. The Nigerian video economy offers compelling evidence for the role of informal markets in creating efficient and economically sustainable media industries. Its success also has implications for current debates around copyright and media piracy. I conclude that reading Nigerian video as a creative industry represents a useful way to rematerialize media studies in the overdeveloped world.
    Keywords
    Nigerian video, Nollywood, creative industries, informality, copyright, intellectual property, piracy, regulation

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