by: Christoph Beat Graber, Mira Burri-nenova publisher: Edward Elgar Pub released: 2008-11-30 ISBN: 1847209211 Price: $140.00 Buy Now!
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`Legal protection for traditional cultural expressions is an area of contemporary policy making characterized by widespread concern and considerable controversy. Intellectual property scholars have a dire need for informed perspectives on the history of this subject area and the lucid commentary on its social and political implications that the authors of these cogent interdisciplinary essays provide. This impressive volume promises to be quickly acknowledged as an indispensable guide to the issues in this field.' - Rosemary J. Coombe, York University, Canada
`The first wave of scholarship on cultural appropriation was often better at denunciation than at grappling with the complexities of cultural heritage and its protection. Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment launches a second wave: nuanced, interdisciplinary, looking past accusation toward flexible solutions. For all that, it is no less committed to social justice. By bringing together leading-edge scholarship from law, the arts, communications, anthropology, history, and philosophy, the editors have taken research on heritage protection to the next level of sophistication.' - Michael F. Brown, Williams College, US and author of Who Owns Native Culture?
In the face of increasing globalisation, and a collision between global communication systems and local traditions, this book offers innovative trans-disciplinary analyses of the value of traditional cultural expressions (TCE) and suggests appropriate protection mechanisms for them. It combines approaches from history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology and law, and charts previously untravelled paths for developing new policy tools and legal designs that go beyond conventional copyright models. Its authors extend their reflections to a consideration of the specific features of the digital environment, which, despite enhancing the risks of misappropriation of traditional knowledge and creativity, may equally offer new opportunities for revitalising indigenous peoples' values and provide for the sustainability of TCE.
This book will appeal to scholars interested in multidisciplinary analyses of the fragmentation of international law in the field of intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions. It will also be valuable reading for those working on broader governance and human rights issues. Buy Now!
With the proliferation of Internet access, e-commerce systems are increasingly important as a new and effective method to distribute, transact, and exploit digital multimedia content. With the growth of multimedia content, management and protection become a critical issue, creating a need for digital rights management systems.
Digital Rights Management for E-Commerce Systems highlights innovative technologies used for the design and implementation of advanced e-commerce systems facilitating digital rights management and protection. Through comprehensive coverage of the full range of technological, legal, and social issues related to digital rights management, this authoritative scholarly work provides researchers, practitioners, and students with a complete understanding of the most critical concerns of today s digital content industry. Buy Now!
by: Aron Ping D'Souza publisher: The Elias Clark Group released: 2008-07-11 ISBN: 0980522412 Price: $70.00 Buy Now!
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Special Protections interrogates the place of indigenous iconography within the liberal Australian Commonwealth. It seeks to determine if Aboriginal iconography, that being expressions of folklore imbued with a spiritual dimension, should be protected beyond the scope of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Using this intellectual framework, this book comes to an ethical conclusion through the theology and political writings of John Locke. This ethical conclusion is given practical legal standing by considering it in regards to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and state-level laws, eg, Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (Vic), Racial Vilification Act 1996 (SA), Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 (Vic). Buy Now!
by: Ralph S. Brown, Robert C. Denicola publisher: Foundation Press released: 2008-07-10 ISBN: 1599415453 Price: $31.00 Buy Now!
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The 2008 Statutory and Case Supplement brings together major legislative and judicial developments since the 2005 publication of the Ninth Edition. Background Notes provide continuing coverage of current business and legal developments. Buy Now!
by: Silke Von Lewinski publisher: Kluwer Law International released: 2008-04-14 ISBN: 9041124926 Price: $218.00 Buy Now!
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For indigenous cultures, property is an alien concept. Yet the market driven industries of the developed world do not hesitate to exploit indigenous raw materials, from melodies to plants, using intellectual property law to justify their behaviour. Existing intellectual property law, for the most part, allows industries to use indigenous knowledge and resources without asking for consent and without sharing the benefits of such exploitation with the indigenous people themselves. It should surprise nobody that indigenous people object.
Recognizing that the commercial exploitation of indigenous knowledge and resources takes place in the midst of a genuine and significant clash of cultures, the eight contributors to this important book explore ways in which intellectual property law can expand to accommodate the interests of indigenous people to their traditional knowledge, genetic resources, indigenous names and designations, and folklore. In so doing they touch upon such fundamental issues and concepts as the following: collective rights to the living heritage relevant human rights norms benefit-sharing in biological resources farmers rights the practical needs of documentation, assistance, and advice the role of customary law bioprospecting and biopiracy and public domain. As a starting point toward mutual understanding and a common basis for communication between Western-style industries and indigenous communities, Indigenous Heritage and Intellectual Property is of immeasurable value. It offers not only an in-depth evaluation of the current legal situation under national, regional and international law including analyses of the Convention on Biological Diversity and other international instruments, as well as initiatives of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other international bodies but also probes numerous further possibilities. While no one concerned with indigenous culture or environmental issues can afford to ignore it, this book is also of special significance to practitioners and policymakers in intellectual property law in relation to indigenous heritage.
This book, here in its second edition, presents the most recent state of knowledge in the field. Buy Now!
