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Interviews: What Protection Of Traditional Knowledge Means To Indigenous Peoples</span></h2><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><small style="font-size:0.8em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;margin:0px;padding:0px">Published on 20 August 2013 @ 5:02 pm</small><br>

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By <a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/author/catherine/" title="Posts by Catherine Saez" rel="author" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,104,159)" target="_blank">Catherine Saez</a>, Intellectual Property Watch</span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">World Intellectual Property Organization member states in July concluded the biennium work of the committee tasked with finding agreement on international legal tools to prevent misappropriation and misuse of genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore.<span style="padding:0px;margin:0px"></span></span></p>

<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Indigenous peoples and local communities are holders of a substantial part of this knowledge and are demanding that it be protected against misappropriation but also against its use without their consent.</span></p>

<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Intellectual Property Watch</em> conducted two interviews with different indigenous groups attending the 15-24 July WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) (<a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/07/25/wipo-general-assembly-left-to-decide-future-work-of-tk-committee/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,104,159)" target="_blank"><i style="padding:0px;margin:0px">IPW</i>, WIPO, 25 July 2013</a>).</span></p>

<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The IGC is working on the protection of genetic resources (GR), traditional knowledge (TK), and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs or folklore) against misappropriation mainly by commercial interests<b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">. </b>Other concerns include knowledge that has been claimed for collection purposes, or research, or has been used for a long time and is considered part of the public domain.</span></p>

<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Indigenous peoples’ groups have said that the public domain was basically created at the same time as the concept of intellectual property and their particular knowledge had been put in that public domain, by default, without their consent.</span></p>

<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Access full article below: </span></p><div><a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/08/20/interviews-what-protection-of-traditional-knowledge-means-to-indigenous-peoples/" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/08/20/interviews-what-protection-of-traditional-knowledge-means-to-indigenous-peoples/</a><br>

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