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Professor from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts will be giving this CIPP IP Seminar Series听 talk.

Prof. Anderson is a law and anthropology scholar and her work focusses on the philosophical and practical problems for intellectual property law posed by the protection of Indigenous/traditional knowledge and cultural heritage. She has worked with civil society and major international organizations developing intellectual property protocols and an international alternative dispute resolution service for intellectual property and Indigenous/traditional/local knowledge disputes.

Abstract

The current development and negotiation in the World Intellectual Property Organization of three new international treaties for the protection of traditional knowledge, genetic resources and traditional cultural expressions (TKGRTCEs) is revealing the complex and contradictory politics that makes this issue so difficult for IP law and policy to deal with.

This paper offers an examination of current developments and how these are intertwined around, and in keeping with, earlier international IP policy moments. It will consider the origins of the issue of traditional knowledge protection within the international polity and the tensions of inclusion within WIPO with reference to what extent, on whose terms, and with what kind of participation, Indigenous interests can be recognized and accommodated.

The increased insistence by certain Member States that 'nations' be included within the treaties as 'owners' of traditional knowledge raises new concerns and starts taking the discussions away from Indigenous and local community issues, leading to both a reinvigorated IP nationalist politics, and a resurgence of development country agendas.

This shift suggests听that, at least within an international context, this issue is being transformed into a site for renegotiating unresolved sovereignty and 'developing' country intellectual property politics.

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