1st Edition

Transboundary Heritage and Intellectual Property Law Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage

Edited By Patricia Covarrubia Copyright 2023
244 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Since the Intangible Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, intangible cultural heritage has increasingly been an important subject of debate in international forums. As more countries implement the Intangible Heritage Convention, national policymakers and communities of practice have been exploring the use of intellectual property protection to achieve intangible cultural heritage... Read more

Introduction

Patricia Covarrubia

1. Enredados – detangling definitions and strengthening views: A lexicon of relevant terms, institutions, and legislations

Patricia Covarrubia

2. Intangible cultural heritage, intellectual property, and the politics of development in Southeast Asia

Christoph Antons

3. Scaling up and down the edible heritage: Food and foodways as terrains of cultural friction

Raúl Matta

4. Tangled webs and remote paths: Transboundary consent and justifiable downstream limits in the protection of traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources within the context of drug discovery – the problems of a consequentialist account

Peter Harrison

5. The legal protection of intangible cultural heritage: The inadequacy of intellectual property in the Republic of Korea

Gyooho Lee

6. Cross-border safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage through geographical indications and EU collective marks: The issue

Benedetta Ubertazzi

7. Colombian/Panamanian molas: Coping with the challenges posed in protecting and commercialising transboundary intangible cultural heritage

Florelia Vallejo-Trujillo

8. The ‘Pisco War’: A Chilean-Peruvian conflict at the crossroads of an intellectual property regime and intangible cultural heritage

Bernardo Alarcón Porflidtt

9. Cross-border safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage through geographical indications and EU collective marks: Consolidation of litigation through private international law

Benedetta Ubertazzi

10. Code and protocols: Protecting transboundary traditional medical knowledge in Southern Africa

Pamela Andanda

11. Knitting a future for the Aymara’s weavers: The Andean project

Patricia Covarrubia

Biography

Patricia Covarrubia is a Reader of Law at the University of Buckingham, Law School, UK. She is an intellectual property consultant at the Latin America IPR SME Helpdesk, co-funded by the EU Commission, and a member of the Comité Scientifique at Centre de coopération internationale en recherche (CIRAD), working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions. Patricia is manager and blogger at IPTango (Intellectual Property weblog – Latin America).