Intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions in a digital environment
By: edited by Christoph Beat Graber and Mira Burri-Nenova.
Contributors: Graber, Christoph Beat.; Nenova, Mira Burri.
Publisher: E. Elgar; Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Publishing; Brand: Edward Elgar Pub
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781847209214
Subjects: Intellectual property; Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation
Description: "In the face of increasing globalisation, and a collision between global communication systems and local traditions, this book offers innovative trans-disciplinary analyses of the value of traditional cultural expressions (TCE) and suggests appropriate protection mechanisms for them. It combines approaches from history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology and law, and charts previously untravelled paths for developing new policy tools and legal designs that go beyond conventional copyright models. Its authors extend their reflections to a consideration of the specific features of the digital environment, which, despite enhancing the risks of misappropriation of traditional knowledge and creativity, may equally offer new opportunities for revitalising indigenous peoples' values and provide for the sustainability of TCE."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost in tradition?  Reconsidering the history of folklore and its legal protection since 1800  -- Monika Dommann; title: Cannibalizing epistemes : will modern law protect traditional cultural expressions  -- Gunther Teubner and Andreas Fischer-Lescano; title: The Disneyland of cultural rights to intellectual property : anthropological and philosophical perspectives  -- Elizabeth Burns Coleman; title: Human rights, cultural property and intellectual property : three concepts in search of a relationship  -- Fiona Macmillan; title: Using human rights to tackle fragmentation in the field of traditional cultural expressions : an institutional approach  -- Christoph Beat Graber; title: Legal protection of traditional cultural expressions : a policy perspective  -- Martin A. Girsberger; title: "It's a small world (after all)" : some reflections on intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions  -- Wend B. Wendland; title: The lay of the land : the geography of traditional cultural expression  -- Johanna Gibson; title: The long tail of the rainbow serpent : new technologies and the protection and promotion of traditional cultural expressions  -- Mira Burri-Nenova; title: New information and communication technologies, traditional cultural expressions and intellectual property lawmaking - a polemic comment  -- Herbert Burkert; title: Commercializing cultural heritage?  Criteria for a balanced instrumentalization of traditional cultural expressions for development in a globalized digital environment  -- Miriam Sahlfeld; title: Traditional cultural expressions and their significance for development in a digital environment : examples from Australia and Southeast Asia -- Christoph Antons.