TY - JOUR
KW - development
KW - Intellectual property
KW - Law
KW - Pacific islands
KW - Trade
AU - S. Farran
AB - Pacific island countries (PICs) are examples of some of the least developed nations in the world. To improve their economic performance they are being urged to enter various trade agreements and in general to put in place frameworks to support twenty-first century priorities and international agendas including intellectual property regimes based, primarily, on western models. Yet PICs have long-standing traditional ways of safeguarding ‘intellectual property’. Their traditional perceptions of this tangible and intangible cultural heritage are not always compatible with the models being proposed, both by their own governments and by external agencies with the consequence that initiatives to boost their small island economies may fail to take root among local communities or fail to recognize or protect the various forms of property and resources which are important to them and, in some cases, may have unforeseen adverse consequences. This paper uses examples from PICs to highlight the present failure of national and trans-national intellectual property regimes to adequately acknowledge the different approaches which indigenous people in the region have towards ‘intellectual property’ and consequences that this may have on their development in the current aid for trade environment.
BT - Development Studies Research
DO - 10.1080/21665095.2014.909289
LA - English
M1 - 1
N1 - Publisher: Routledge
N2 - Pacific island countries (PICs) are examples of some of the least developed nations in the world. To improve their economic performance they are being urged to enter various trade agreements and in general to put in place frameworks to support twenty-first century priorities and international agendas including intellectual property regimes based, primarily, on western models. Yet PICs have long-standing traditional ways of safeguarding ‘intellectual property’. Their traditional perceptions of this tangible and intangible cultural heritage are not always compatible with the models being proposed, both by their own governments and by external agencies with the consequence that initiatives to boost their small island economies may fail to take root among local communities or fail to recognize or protect the various forms of property and resources which are important to them and, in some cases, may have unforeseen adverse consequences. This paper uses examples from PICs to highlight the present failure of national and trans-national intellectual property regimes to adequately acknowledge the different approaches which indigenous people in the region have towards ‘intellectual property’ and consequences that this may have on their development in the current aid for trade environment.
PY - 2014
SP - 28
EP - 41
T2 - Development Studies Research
TI - Aid, trade and taboo: The place of indigenous traditional knowledge in development strategies: A Pacific perspective
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006380494&doi=10.1080%2f21665095.2014.909289&partnerID=40&md5=7ff6787a0dba95c16bfb16446485ce48
VL - 1
SN - 21665095 (ISSN)
ER -