0821354876 9780821354872 0585496137 electronic book 9780585496139 electronic book 9781280084423 9786610084425 9780821383698
Alternate Call Number
N 637 FIN.P
Summary
This book is about increasing the earnings of poor people in poor countries from their innovation, knowledge, and creative skills. Case studies look at the African music industry; traditional crafts and ways to prevent counterfeit crafts designs; the activities of fair trade organizations; biopiracy and the commercialization of ethnobotanical knowledge; the use of intellectual property laws and other tools to protect traditional knowledge.
Note
A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press. Antetitlu: The World Bank. Additional physical form: Print Version:9780821354872.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Kuyujani originario: the Yekuana Road to the overall protection of their rights as a people; 2. Handmade in India: traditional craft skills in a changing world; 3. Enhancing intellectual property exports through fair trade; 4. The Africa music project; 5. Preventing counterfeit craft designs; 6. Bioprospecting agreements and benefit sharing with local communities; 7. Biopiracy and commercialization of ethnobotanical knowledge; 8. Prevention of misappropriation of intangible cultural heritage through intellectual property laws; 9. Making intellectual property laws work for traditional knowledge.
Kuyujani Originario : the Yekuana road to the overall protection of their rights as a people / Nell Arvelo-Jiménez Handmade in India : traditional craft skills in a changing world / Maureen Liebl, Tirthankar Roy Enhancing intellectual property exports through fair trade / Ron Layton The Africa music project / Frank J. Penna, Monique Thormann, J. Michael Finger Preventing counterfeit craft designs / Betsy J. Fowler Bioprospecting agreements and benefit sharing with local communities / Kerry ten Kate, Sarah A. Laird Biopiracy and commercialization of ethnobotanical knowledge / Philip Schuler Prevention of misappropriation of intangible cultural heritage through intellectual property laws / Daniel Wüger Making intellectual property laws work for traditional knowledge / Coenraad J. Visser.