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The Protection of Folklore in the S wakopmund Protocol Adopted by the ARIPO ( A frican Regional Intellectual Property Organization)
Author(s) -
Ngombe Laurier Y.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of world intellectual property
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1747-1796
pISSN - 1422-2213
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1796.2011.00426.x
Subject(s) - folklore , intellectual property , protocol (science) , business , political science , law , sociology , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , anthropology
The A frican Regional Intellectual Property Organisation has adopted, on A ugust 2010, one new protocol. This regional text is on the protection of folklore and TK (Traditional Knowledge). Concerning the expressions of foklore, several issues are included such as the ownership of transnational folklore or the distribution of “royalties”. The text is fundamentally inspired by rules relating to copyright law and consolidated by customary law rules.