ACCESS TO CULTURE: PLAY OF POWERS BETWEEN THE RIGHT TO AND THE RIGHT OF PROPERTY

In this text, under the perspective of Discourse Analysis (DA) grounded in Michel Pêcheux, we examine the way in which the phrase “access to culture” works and triggers effects of meaning in the process of reshaping the Copyright Law (LDA) nº 9.610 from February, 1998. We initially discuss the relation between the notion of culture and the sphere of Copyright Laws. We then analyze two discursive sequences from the primer Consulta Pública para Modernização da Lei de Direito Autoral produced by the Ministry of Culture (MinC). Our aim is to guide through the reshaping of the law. In order to support analysis, throughout the text, were also mobilized some theoretical notions such as archive, phrase, formulation, discursive formation and subject position. The theoretic-analytical gesture allowed us to understand that the effects of meaning produced - through the operation of the phrase "access to culture" - result from the materialization of a play of powers, nourished by new technologies, between protection (rights of property) and access (right to property).