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The French Law of 11 March 1957 on copyright applied in Cameroon until 1982 was not adapted to the Cameroonian politico-cultural context. This provoked its replacement by the Law n° 82-18 of 26 November 1982 regulating copyright. This law had the advantage of protecting the Cameroonian folklore and works inspired by it, but had the weakness of not protecting neighboring rights. The necessity of protecting neighboring rights led to the adoption of the Law n° 90/010 of August 10th 1990 relating to copyright and neighboring rights. The prodigious development of computers and new technologies of information and communication, which is responsible for the existence of the new works and new possibilities of diffusion has quickly revealed that the 1990 Law was obsolete. The law adopted on the 19th of December 2000 on copyright and neighboring rights integrates the numerical environment in which we live henceforth, widening the categories of protected art works and improving conditions for creators and diffusers of intellectual works.In Cameroon's substantive law, new categories of protected works were added to the existing categories. These consist of commissioned works and works relating to computer science such as software, data bases, and multimedia works. At the same time, mechanisms to protect intellectual works have been simplified and improved in order to procure to creators and diffusers the most effective guarantees. That is why in the 2000 law we notice a reinforcement of the attributes of moral rights of authors and artists and the safety of their royalty, so as to help them out of their poor working conditions.
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This essay begins with an intertextual study comparing Locke’s journal entries collectively entitled Atlantis with the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. It then proceeds at greater length to trace in maps and correspondence the appearance—and disappearance—of “Locke Island” as a cartographic name place and epistolary reference. Although the island bearing Locke’s name has been noted before, its story is untold in the detail that it deserves. Not only is it intrinsically interesting that an island in the new world—now known as Edisto Island—was once named for John Locke, but it is especially intriguing because of the fraught colonial politics attending it in the first place and especially the last. In particular, the disappearance of Locke Island from maps was a politically motivated cartographic erasure by one Maurice Mathews, a vindictive surveyor general at odds with the two principal Lords Proprietors for whom Locke worked as Secretary. Its story is also worth pursuing because—the coincidence is too hard to avoid, inviting conjecture—Locke Island was the very place in early colonial Carolina where Locke imagined an intentional community named Atlantis to be founded, however short-lived its fate.
Keywords: Locke Island, Atlantis, Edisto, Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, Nicolas Toinard, Maurice Mathews