01414nam a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260002000042653003900062653004800101100002100149245011800170490000700288520095500295020001801250                                       d  bKluwer Law Intl10aIntellectual property (THE\_12504)10aOral traditions and expressions (ICH\_1227)1 aChristoph Antons00aTraditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and intellectual property law in the Asia-Pacific region0 v143 aThe debate about traditional knowledge is conducted by a very diverse group of protagonists. Involved are intellectual property lawyers, environmental law experts, government representatives and representatives of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), geographers, biologists, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, experts in public health administration and in agricultural development, archaeologists, artists and local and indigenous communities. Depending on whom one listens to, one gets a very different impression of the scope and content of terms such as ‘tradition’ and ‘knowledge’. The most wide ranging definitions of traditional knowledge use holistic concepts of knowledge and knowledge transmission and they encompass everything from artistic, literary and oral cultural expressions to signs and symbols to traditional medicines, plants, agricultural knowledge and knowledge about biodiversity and the environment.  a90-411-2721-6