Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law provides readers with a clear introduction
to UK intellectual property law, whilst carefully placing the law in its global context and …

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 …

The continent of Africa is richly endowed with diverse cultures, a body of indigenous
knowledge and technologies. These bodies of knowledge and technologies that are indeed …

Combining unique practical experience with a sophisticated historical and theoretical
framework, this impressive work offers a new basis to explore indigenous intellectual …

After colonization, indigenous people faced an extractive property rights regime for both their
land and knowledge. This book outlines that regime, and how the symbolic function of …

In the past, efforts to reconcile the western concept of intellectual property with indigenous
knowledge have not taken into account the schism between this knowledge and western …

The search for appropriate modalities for the protection of indigenous or traditional
knowledge1 is a subject of contemporary international law and policy discourse. As a …

The relationships between international intellectual property treaties, the United Nations
international environmental treaties (first and foremost the Convention on Biological …

Piracy is a central theme running through the international discourse on patent rights. The
concept was utilized as a rationale for including intellectual property rights within a global …

The present paper deals with the question how legal protection of biodiversity and traditional
knowledge can be accommodated and how the results from the use and exploitation of …