Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America is the first sustained effort to present an alternative framework for understanding piracy and contemporary challenges to global discourses on intellectual property in the Americas.

Introduction 1. How Trinkets Became Counterfeits: Value and Intellectual Property in a Low-income Market in Brazil 2. The Piracy Problem: Indigeneity, Hybridity, and the Racial Politics of IP Enforcement in Guatemala 3. Piracy and/as Legitimate Business 4. Piracy as Media Practice: The Informal Market of Music and Videos in Peru 5. Context as Content in Chilean Community Media 6. 'Feeling Pirate' as Media Affect in Mexican-American Experience 7. From Piracy as a Crime to Piracy as a Necessity: Territorial Inequalities and the Socially Necessary Market in Brazil 8. Book Piracy in Chile and the Proletarianization of Literature in Pedro Lemebel 9. Pirate Book Aesthetics in Contemporary Argentina 10. Between Abundance and Appropriation: Indeterminate Critiques of Global IP Schemes 11. The Creative Copy: Agency and Fashion at a Market for Counterfeited Garments Appendix: A Primer on Intellectual Property