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Author Le Gall, Sharon B., author

Title Intellectual property, traditional knowledge and cultural property protection : cultural signifiers in the Caribbean and the Americas / Sharon B. Le Gall
Published London : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 196 pages .)
Series Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
Routledge-Cavendish research in intellectual property.
Contents Popular/traditional cultural signifiers in the Caribbean and the Americas -- Protecting cultural signifiers as intellectual property -- Protecting cultural signifiers as traditional knowledge -- Protecting cultural signifiers as cultural property -- Reclaiming collective knowledge through group rights to cultural signifiers : a theoretical framework
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-192) and index
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Subject Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- Caribbean Area
Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- Latin America
Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- South America
Music and state -- Trinidad and Tobago
Intellectual property -- Philosophy
Cultural policy
Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation
Intellectual property -- Philosophy
Music and state
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Cultural policy
Latin America -- Cultural policy
South America -- Cultural policy
Subject Caribbean Area
Latin America
South America
Trinidad and Tobago
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1136026568
9781136026560
0203797884
9780203797884