Book Details
Orange Code:91875
Paperback:268 pages
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Sections:
1. The cultural life of law2. The making of intellectual property law3. Copyright and the categories of identifi cation4. Aboriginal art and the economic currency of law5. Study of the bureaucratic agenda6. A tale of two cases7. The politics of law8. Globalising indigenous rights in intellectual property9. The culture concept10. Community and culture/community claims
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Over a period of roughly twenty years, the challenge of how to prevent the unauthorized use of indigenous knowledge has become a problem perceived to be best solved by and managed through an intellectual property regime. This book offers a socio-legal study of the emergence of indigenous interests in intellectual property law. It examines the way indigenous knowledge has become a category of intellectual property law and consequently how legal processes have been involved in governing very specific conceptions of indigenous knowledge. The book goes on to explore the range of competing political interests that have influenced how law has dealt with the issue, how governments understand the problem and how Indigenous expectations for legal remedy have been constructed.
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