Can we protect “traditional knowledge?” Should we?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"It is not difficulty to find stories of how native peoples have been exploited for economic gain by companies that will appropriate and market traditional knowledge forms — everything from music to medicine. Such exploitation causes one to think that there is a hole in copyright laws that needs to be filled. But any attempt to expand the scope of our copyright protections, which already seem to cover too much and last too long, is likely to have a detrimental effect on scholarship. Thus I find myself caught between warring impulses — respect for the intellectual creations of native peoples versus the desire to foster widespread knowledge of different cultures . This latter impulse is a corollary of the general belief that a robust public domain is a good thing overall for all societies...."

Link:

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2010/09/15/can-we-protect-traditional-knowledge-should-we/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.pd oa.africa oa.tk oa.folklore oa.ghana oa.south oa.copyright

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 16:23

Date published:

09/17/2010, 09:02