tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post1351425890340169513..comments2024-03-19T08:36:55.274+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Indigenous Peoples Boycott at WIPOVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-44024922915705984052008-10-27T09:37:00.000+00:002008-10-27T09:37:00.000+00:00I've been thinking about this for awhile, and I do...I've been thinking about this for awhile, and I don't think we really want to. In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that justice demands not doing it. But that could just be my perspective as an American since my culture <I>is</I> a big derivative work of everybody else's cultures. I think many of my co-workers here in Nigeria would disagree with me and argue that we do need and justice does demand it.goldenrailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07257965659017173039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-35193708040603208472008-10-22T12:28:00.000+01:002008-10-22T12:28:00.000+01:00Good question, Goldenrail. Are we sure we want to?...Good question, Goldenrail. <BR/><BR/>Are we sure we want to? Does justice really demand it? Can anyone suggest a system that is reasonably fair and reasonably practical?twr57https://www.blogger.com/profile/02330827817659112019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-14885179535985914542008-10-17T23:28:00.000+01:002008-10-17T23:28:00.000+01:00After pouring over the report from the last IGC se...After pouring over the report from the last IGC session and discussing the session with Nigeria's representative to the Committee, I was left wondering if international protection for indigenous knowledge is even feasible. The session discussion seem to go around in circles, positions divided in a nearly clean developed/developing split. Reading the report had the same numbing effect one could achieve by banging their head against a wall for an hour.<BR/><BR/>What intrigues me is this: how can a property scheme built on protecting individual creations against the greater society protect societal creations against the rest of the world? Does the public domain of one country or culture, the common knowledge of those in it, become the property of that culture, to the exclusion of other cultures? And if so, how do we separate the colors on the tie-dyed t-shirt of humanity?goldenrailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07257965659017173039noreply@blogger.com