Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge
Many aboriginal communities in the Global South depend for their livelihoods on the vast supply of bio-resources around them, but multinational corporations (MNCs) are not always ethical in their dealings with these communities. MNCs often pirate and patent communal, traditional knowledge, thereby &...
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| Format: | Bog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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UK
Emerald Publishing
2020
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| Summary: | Many aboriginal communities in the Global South depend for their livelihoods on the vast supply of bio-resources around them, but multinational corporations (MNCs) are not always ethical in their dealings with these communities. MNCs often pirate and patent communal, traditional knowledge, thereby "acquiring" intellectual property potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars almost free of cost. Aboriginal communities face steep uphill legal battles in these cases. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 173p |
| ISBN: | 9781800430662 |