@article{48876,
      author = {Taubman, Antony,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/48876},
      title = {Saving the Village : Conserving Jurisprudential Diversity  in the International Protection of Traditional Knowledge.},
      abstract = {In early ecclesiastical law, “tradition” was the crime  of handing over sacred texts and information about the  community to persecutors; indeed the word “tradition”  shares its roots with “traitor” and “betrayal,”  which invokes the concept that “handing over” or  “passing on” of knowledge need not be benign, but may  be injurious, even perfidious. “Tradition” does more  positively connote customs, laws, practices and beliefs  that are passed down within a community. However, the  two-edged nature of the word recalls that some forms of  transmitting traditional knowledge (TK) and making it  available to the public can be seen as a betrayal or a  violation of customary laws, which causes offence or  gravely damages a community. Jefferson's characterization  of knowledge, establishing it as the iconic non-rivalrous  public good – “he who receives an idea from me … as  he who lights a taper at mine, receives light without  darkening me” – may not convince those communities who  fear that careless acts by others to gain illumination from  TK may in fact diminish, or extinguish, the original flame,  and darken their communities' future.  Many local and  indigenous communities are concerned that growing global  interest in their TK and traditional cultural expressions  is not matched by respect for the customs, laws and beliefs  that identify and sustain their communities and that shape  the very heritage that appeals to external consumers.},
      recid = {48876},
      pages = {1 online resource (Chapter 19, pp. 521 - 564) :},
}