Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples, A Sourcebook
Edited by Tom Greaves
A publication of the Society for Applied Anthropology
ISBN 0-9642023-0-1
The rights of indigenous societies to control access and use of their cultural knowledge is an issue of global scale, debated in the United Nations, in the biodiversity and human rights movements, within the pharmaceutical industry, in government and private corporations, among the social and applied scientists, and, most importantly, among indigenous leaders.
The Society for Applied Anthropology has published a Sourcebook on intellectual property rights for indigenous societies. The Sourcebook contains 15 chapters, various appended documents, the names and addresses of organizations and sources related to IPR, extensive bibliographies, and an index.
The Sourcebook offers both cases where indigenous groups have asserted these rights and analyses of the legal and political context. It is intended to be useful to indigenous leaders reviewing their options; to advocacy groups for indigenous rights, human rights and biodiversity preservation; to policy specialist; and to scholars The Sourcebook provides a consolidated source of very current information on the rights of indigenous peoples with respect to the use of their cultural knowledge.
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