Oxford LibGuides: Cultural heritage law: Indigenous, Traditional Culture &amp; Knowledge

Indigenous/Traditional Cultural Expressions and Traditional Knowledge

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Cultural property -- Protection (International law)
Intellectual property -- Developing countries
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The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work HereAdinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana by Boatema Boateng
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9780816670024
Publication Date: 2011
Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage by Alexandra Xanthaki (Editor); Sanna Valkonen (Editor); Leena Heinämäki (Editor); Piia Kristiina Nuorgam (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9789004342187
Publication Date: 2017
Includes chapter International Instruments on Cultural Heritage: Tales of Fragmentation
Intangible Cultural Heritage in International Law by Lucas Lixinski
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 0199679509
Publication Date: 2013
Print copy is at Internat 610 L788.8a
International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage by Christoph Beat Graber (Editor); Karolina Kuprecht (Editor); Jessica C. Lai (Editor)
Call Number: Internat 570 G728.3a
ISBN: 0857938304
Publication Date: 2012
Weaving Intellectual Property Policy in Small Island Developing States by Miranda Forsyth; Sue Farran
Call Number: General 510 F735.5a
ISBN: 1780682255
Publication Date: 2015

Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions & Genetic Resources Laws
Find laws, treaties and regulations on the protection of traditional knowledge (TK), traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) and genetic resources (GRs).
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Text and related material on official website maintained by UNESCO
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
Model provisions for national laws on the protection of expressions of folklore against illicit exploitation and other prejudicial actions
Full text from official UNESCO website
UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage
Official website. Open Access
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Official website. The online edition of the Atlas is complementary to the print edition It does not reproduce the regional and thematic chapters of the print version, but it offers additional information on the listed endangered languages. For print copy see O.UNESCO/2011(9)
UNESCO Digital Library
Official website's search screen to find related documents and publications.
WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
Official website.This IGC has mandate to undertake " text-based negotiations with the objective of reaching agreement on a text(s) of an international legal instrument(s), which will ensure the effective protection of traditional knowledge (TK), traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) and genetic resources (GRs)."
Glossary (WIPO)
Key terms related to intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.
Ko Aotearoa Tēnei: Report on the Wai 262 Claim
Waitiangi Tribunal Report (2011) "The claim is about the place of Māori culture, identity and traditional knowledge in New Zealand's laws, and in government policies and practices. It concerns who controls Māori traditional knowledge, who controls artistic and cultural works such as haka and waiata, and who controls the environment that created Māori culture. It also concerns the place in contemporary New Zealand life of core Māori cultural values such as the obligation of iwi and hapū to act as kaitiaki (cultural guardians) towards taonga (treasured things) such as traditional knowledge, artistic and cultural works, important places, and flora and fauna that are significant to iwi or hapū identity."

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