Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the Twenty-first Century: Perspectives from Southern Africa - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 2869781946 ISBN 13: 9782869781948

Casa editrice: West African Book Pub Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

This volume discusses a number of issues on the contested nature of intellectual property rights (IPR) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in the context of Southern Africa. The issues addressed include the protection of folklore, IKS in a digital era, the valuation and safeguard of heritage sites, the need for appropriate IKS legislation, community based control of natural resources and the role played by traditional music in the maintenance of community. It is this extensive exploration of IKS from the vantage points of communication and culture, and explored in terms of policy, cultural survival, international as well as intra-national politics, economics, philosophy and ethics that makes this empirical grounded collection of papers unique, a distinctive contribution to the literature and 'cause' of IKS. The specific IKS-related issues raised and dealt with in this volume are generic in the sense that the very same issues are being contested in different parts of the world. In this respect, this book highlights the particular as a means of comprehending the universal.

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• Editore: West African Book Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 2869781946
• ISBN 13: 9782869781948
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 129
• Redattore: Mazonde Isaac Ncube, Thomas Pradip
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