Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment

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Christoph Beat Graber, Mira Burri Nenova
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2008 - Law - 328 pages
This book is a very significant contribution to the question of protecting traditional cultural expressions. . . It is filled with fascinating ideas and perspectives that challenge the reader to rethink the law once again. Jamil Ammar, European Intellectu
 

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Lost in tradition? Reconsidering the history of folklore and its legal protection since 1800
3
Cannibalizing epistemes will modern law protect traditional cultural expressions?
17
The disneyland of cultural rights to intellectual property anthropological and philosophical perspectives
49
Human rights cultural property and intellectual property three concepts in search of a relationship
73
Using human rights to tackle fragmentation in the field of traditional cultural expressions an institutional approach
96
Legal protection of traditional cultural expressions a policy perspective
123
Its a small world after all some reflections on intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions
150
The lay of the land the geography of traditional cultural expression
182
The long tail of the rainbow serpent new technologies and the protection and promotion of traditional cultural expressions
205
New information and communication technologies traditional cultural expressions and intellectual property lawmaking a polemic comment
237
Commercializing cultural heritage? Criteria for a balanced instrumentalization of traditional cultural expressions for development in a globalized digit...
256
Traditional cultural expressions and their significance for development in a digital environment examples from Australia and Southeast Asia
287
Annex
303
Index
315
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