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Title: | Protecting Traditional Knowledge under Trips: Prayer of the developing world |
Authors: | Idris, Biniam |
Keywords: | Traditional Knowledge, Prayer, developing world |
Issue Date: | Sep-2011 |
Publisher: | St. Mary's University |
Abstract: | This paper tries to show if there is any way of protecting traditional
knowledge in the current modern system of intellectual property protection.
Protection of works of the mind is currently being rendered in national and
international legal regimes. Among the international organizations with
primary responsibility of protecting intellectual property, we found WIPO
and WTO as major structures. Most of the world trade which flows through
WTO channel is found to be protected in the trade related intellectual
property agreement (TRIPs). Communities in developing countries and some
developed world have been living for centuries depending on their tradition
and customs. These traditions are ways of their day- to-day activity and have
reached their current generation through a prolonged transfer from their
fore-fathers. They are endowed with traditional knowledge with potential of
solving various problems, but the problem is their knowledge has been easily
taken away by the free trade spirit and they are not benefiting from their
property. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2750 |
Appears in Collections: | The 3rd Multidisciplinary Research Seminar
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