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<p>For indigenous cultures, property is an alien concept. Yet the market-driven industries of the developed world do not hesitate to exploit indigenous raw materials, from melodies to plants, using intellectual property law to justify their behaviour. Existing intellectual property law, for the most part, allows industries to use indigenous knowledge and resources without asking for consent and without sharing the benefits of such exploitation with the indigenous people themselves. It should surprise nobody that indigenous people object.</p> <p>Recognizing that the commercial exploitation of indigenous knowledge and resources takes place in the midst of a genuine and significant clash of cultures, the eight contributors to this important book explore ways in which intellectual property law can expand to accommodate the interests of indigenous people to their traditional knowledge, genetic resources, indigenous names and designations, and folklore. In so doing they touch upon such fundamental issues and concepts as the following:</p> <ul> <li style="list-style: none">;</li> <li>collective rights to the living heritage;</li> <li>relevant human rights norms;</li> <li>benefit-sharing i

Author

DR.SILKE VON LEWINSKI

Publisher

Kluwer Law International; Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Aspen Publishers

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9789041124920

Subjects

Science, Law