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Intellectual property, indigenous people and their knowledge

Title
Intellectual property, indigenous people and their knowledge [electronic resource] / Peter Drahos.
ISBN
9781107295230
1107295238
9781139960175
1139960172
9781139958059
1139958054
9781306857710
1306857716
9781107055339
1107055334
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 247 pages).
Summary
Drawing on ancestral cosmology of Australia's indigenous people, this book develops a theory of indigenous peoples' innovation and intellectual property.
Other formats
Print version: Drahos, Peter. Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and their Knowledge. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2014
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2014
Series
Cambridge intellectual property and information law.
Contents
1. The non-developmental state. 1.1. Extractive property ; 1.2. Extractive intellectual property ; 1.3. Extractive property and autonomous law ; 1.4. Data gathering ; 1.5. Ancestral systems and customary law ; 1.6. The quicksands of definition ; 1.7. Innovation and useful knowledge
2. Cosmology's country. 2.1. Cosmology and Plato's Dreaming ; 2.2. Cosmologies and Countries ; 2.3. Communicating with ancestors ; 2.4. Cosmological connectionism ; 2.5. 'Elders with bigbrains' ; 2.6. Observing and burning Country ; 2.7. Cosmological connectionism and innovation ; 2.8. Humiliation and pride in innovation
3. Loss. 3.1. The first pistol ; 3.2. The loss of knowledge ; 3.3. Loss of Country ; 4 Symbolic recognition ; 4.1. 'Savages' ; 4.2. Recognition and ritualism ; 4.3. Journeys to treaties ; 4.4. Treaties and indigenous knowledge ; 4.5. The International Labour Organization ; 4.6. Folklore in Tunis ; 4.7. The Convention on Biological Diversity ; 4.8. World Intellectual Property Organization ; 4.9. Farmers, food and agriculture ; 4.10. Dialogue, dialogue everywhere, nor any property to be seen ; 4.11. UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
5. Rules and the recognition of ancestors. 5.1. Be careful what you wish for: when rules rule ; 5.2. Getting what you wish for: the recognition of ancestors
6. The Kimberley: big projects, little projects. 6.1. Big projects ; 6.2. A little project ; 6.3. Trust and smoke ; 6.4. A crocodile's bite ; 6.5. Once bitten twice shy ; 6.6. Patents, territory and Country
7. Secret plants. 7.1. Keeping quiet ; 7.2. Smart plays and losing games
8. Paying peanuts for biodiversity. 8.1. Law, ethical codes and instructions to applicants ; 8.2. Collectors and peanuts
9. Gentle on Country, gentle on people. 9.1. The network option ; 9.2. Where have the neem trees gone? ; 9.3. The constraint of gentleness ; 9.4. Regulatory bricolage
10. Protecting Country's cosmology. 10.1. Options ; 10.2. The secret of the Mars Bar ; 10.3. The plant variety rights option ; 10.4. Signs ; 10.5. Moral action at a distance ; 10.6. Place and products: geographical indications
11. Trust in networks. 11.1. Payment for ecosystem innovation: Waiting for Godot ; 11.2. The new voyage of the Beagle ; 11.3. De-routinization: irregular paths to knowledge ; 11.4. Beyond instrumental trust ; 11.5. Where are the really poisonous snakes? ; 11.6. Distrusting the state
References
Index.
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