| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 129 pages) |
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Codesria book series |
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Codesria book series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Contesting Space and Time: Intellectual Property RIghts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research -- A Challenge -- Chapter Two -- Intellectual Property Challenges in Africa: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Fate of Connected Worlds -- Chapter Three -- Intellectual Property Law and the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge -- Chapter Four -- Protecting Folklore under Modern Intellectual Property Regimes: Limitations and Alternative Regimes for Protection -- Chapter Five -- Copyright in the Digital Era and Some Implications for Indigenous Knowledge -- Chapter Six -- The Gods are resting There: Challenges to the Protection of Heritage Sites through Legislation and Local Knowledge -- Chapter Seven -- The Development of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Policy and Legislation in South Africa: Intellectual Property Implications for Knowledge Holders and Practitioners -- Chapter Eight -- Intellectual Property Rights and Natural Resources: A Case Study of Harvesters of Medicinal Plants in the North-West Province, South Africa -- Chapter Nine -- Protection and Promotion of Local Music: A Talent that Educates, Entertains and Binds -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
This volume discusses a number of issues on the contested nature of intellectual property rights (IPR) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in the context of Southern Africa. The issues addressed include the protection of folklore, IKS in a digital era, the valuation and safeguard of heritage sites, the need for appropriate IKS legislation, community based control of natural resources and the role played by traditional music in the maintenance of community. It is this extensive exploration of IKS from the vantage points of communication and culture, and explored in terms of policy, cultural survival, international as well as intra-national politics, economics, philosophy and ethics that makes this empirical grounded collection of papers unique, a distinctive contribution to the literature and 'cause' of IKS. The specific IKS-related issues raised and dealt with in this volume are generic in the sense that the very same issues are being contested in different parts of the world. In this respect, this book highlights the particular as a means of comprehending the universal |
| Notes |
Published in association with the University of Botswana & the World Association for Christian Communication |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Intellectual property -- Africa, Southern
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Ethnoscience -- Africa, Southern
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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sociology of knowledge.
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Ethnoscience
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Intellectual property
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Southern Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mazonde, Isaac Ncube
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Thomas, Pradip
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| ISBN |
9782869784062 |
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2869784066 |
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1282901435 |
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9781282901438 |
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