商品簡介
Western intellectual property rights systems, based as they are on the rights of the individual pose major difficulties for efforts to maintain indigenous knowledge and prevent their exploitation by nonindigenous individuals and corporations. Riley (research associate, Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, U. of Illinois at Chicago) hopes that this volume contributes to overcoming these challenges by describing legal obstacles facing indigenous groups worldwide and looking at cases in which innovative legal and non-legal solutions were applied. Other major themes running through the 12 papers presented include the role of indigenous activism, the relationship of intellectual property rights to land-use and resource rights, and the issue of who grants control and access to indigenous resources. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Mary Riley is a Research Associate in the Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
