Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights

Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions

Edited by Mary Riley

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Publication date:

13 August 2004

Length of book:

416 pages

Publisher

AltaMira Press

ISBN-13: 9780759115477

Riley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property. Much of the existing literature already addresses the poor fit between western regimes of intellectual property rights and the requirements for safeguarding indigenous cultural resources. The manuscript gets beyond these negative claims in depicting positive efforts at protecting indigenous knowledge and cultures, notwithstanding these legal limitations. The reader is exposed to a wide array of legal, political, organizational, and contractual strategies deployed by indigenous groups to protect their intellectual property interests. It will be an important resource for social scientists, advocates for indigenous and human rights, bioprospecting, indigenous leaders, NGOs and law libraries.

1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 3
Chapter I: LEGAL OBSTACLES 4
Chapter 1: As Long As the Grass Grows: Representing Indigenous Claims 5
Chapter 2: Digital Vibes and Radio Waves in Indigenous Peru 6
Chapter 3: Intellectual Property Protection and the Market for Alaska Native Arts and Crafts 7
Chapter 4: The Amerindian Rights Movement in Guyana and Its Influence 8
Chapter II: DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS 9
Chapter 5: Land, Tenure Systems, and Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights 10
Chapter 6: Benefit-Sharing Under the Convention on Biological Diversity 11
Chapter 7: Ownership of Indigenous Languages: A case study from Guatemala 12
Chapter III: ACCESS AND CONTROL 13
Chapter 8: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights and Responsibilities 14
Chapter 9: Biocolonialism and Isolates of Historic Interest 15
Chapter 10: Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Plant Resources of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation 16
Chapter 11: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Archaeology 17
Chapter 12: Prior Informed Consent and Bioprospecting Research in Chiapas 18 Index 19 About the Authors

This book covers much of the enormous range of concerns Native peoples have today about appropriation and alienation of their cultural property and rights. . . . A good source for surveying the breadth of the IPR discourse today.....