Author: Georges S. ShemdoePublisher:
ISBN: 9789966030375
Category : Healers
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
National Policies and Legal Frameworks Governing Traditional Knowledge and Effective Intellectual Property Systems in Southern and Eastern Africa
Author: Georges S. ShemdoePublisher:
ISBN: 9789966030375
Category : Healers
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Customary Law and Traditional Knowledge
Author: World Intellectual Property OrganizationPublisher: WIPO
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
This Brief explores the issues concerning customary law, traditional knowledge and intellectual property.
Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property
Author: World Intellectual Property OrganizationPublisher: WIPO
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
This Brief provides general and basic information on the interface between intellectual property and traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources.
Developing a National Strategy on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions
Author: World Intellectual Property OrganizationPublisher: WIPO
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
This Brief summarizes the legal, policy and operational issues that need to be considered in developing a national strategy for the intellectual property protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.
Intellectual Property Law in Africa
Author: Caroline B. NcubePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000915808
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Examining the harmonisation of Intellectual Property policy, law and administration in Africa, this book evaluates the effectiveness of efforts to establish continental Intellectual Property institutions and frameworks. It also considers sub-regional initiatives led by the regional economic communities and the regional Intellectual Property organisations, focusing on relevant protocols and agreements that address Intellectual Property as well as the implementing institutions. The book assesses the progress of such initiatives with particular reference to the current socio-economic status of African states. It argues that that harmonisation initiatives need to be crafted in a way that is supportive of the developmental goals of African states and advocates for due consideration of individual states’ unique conditions and aspirations. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in Intellectual Property law and its harmonisation in Africa.
Protecting Traditional Knowledge
Author: Daniel F. RobinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317354850
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive review of the Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established in 2000. It provides an in-depth consideration of the key thematic areas within WIPO discussions – genetic resources (GRs), traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) through the perspectives of a broad range of experts and stakeholders, including indigenous peoples and local communities. It also looks at how these areas have been treated in a number of forums and settings (including national systems and experiences, and also in trade agreements) and the interface with WIPO discussions. Furthermore, the book analyses the process and the negotiation dynamics since the IGC received a mandate from WIPO members, in 2009, to undertake formal text-based negotiations towards legal instruments for the protection of GR, TK and TCEs. While there has been some progress in these negotiations, important disagreements persist. If these are to be resolved, the adoption of these legal instruments would be a significant development towards resolving key gaps in the modern intellectual property system. In this regard, the book considers the future of the IGC and suggests options which could contribute towards achieving a consensual outcome.
Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Property Protection
Author: Sharon Le GallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136026649
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
International developments since the mid-1990s have signalled an awareness of the importance and validity of traditional knowledge and cultural property. The adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the establishment of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore demonstrate an emerging trend towards the recognition of the rights of communities and the importance of culture in shaping international law and policy. This book examines how developments to protect collectively held knowledge transpose to circumstances which may not meet the usually understood criteria of what is considered to be an indigenous or traditional group. This includes communally derived cultural products which have emerged out of communities and subsequently formed a part of the national or popular culture. The book considers the steel pan of Trinidad and Tobago, punta rock music from Belize, Brazilian capoeira, and the cajón of Peru as key cases studies of this. By exploring the impact of past and recent international developments to protect traditional knowledge, Sharon Le Gall highlights a category of cultural signifiers which lies outside the scope of intellectual property protection, as well as the protection proposed for traditional knowledge and advocated for intangible cultural property. The book proposes a reinterpretation of Joseph Raz’s interest theory of group rights in order to accommodate the rights advocated for collectively derived cultural signifiers on the basis of their value as symbols of identity. In doing so, Le Gall offers an original account of how those signifiers, which may not be described as exclusively ‘traditional’ or ‘indigenous’ and held in ways which are not ‘traditional’ or ‘customary’, may be accommodated in emerging traditional knowledge laws.
African Free Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property
Author: Michael BlakeneyPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 103532895X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This informative book examines the intellectual property (IP) provisions of the sub-regional and continental Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that have been implemented in Africa to facilitate trade and promote economic integration. Michael Blakeney and Getachew Mengistie Alemu explain how FTAs can be used when setting IP standards in order to influence the ongoing effort to develop effective international agreements with Africa.
Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, Access Benefit Sharing Policy Environment in Eight Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
Author: Joseph M. WekundahPublisher:
ISBN: 9789966030399
Category : Intellectual property
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Developing a National Strategy on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions (Chinese version)
Author: World Intellectual Property OrganizationPublisher: WIPO
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 4
Book Description
This Brief summarizes the legal, policy and operational issues that need to be considered in developing a national strategy for the intellectual property protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.