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Authors

• Wanjiku Karanja Kenya School fanatic Law (Nairobi, Kenya)

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Keywords:

Intellectual Property Rights, Indigenous, Traditional Knowledge, Better Society, Rights

Abstract

The bronze knick-knacks of indigenous peoples, indigenous cognition, and heritage and culture plot acquired wide usage in supranational debates on sustainable development extort intellectual property protection since rank turn of the 20th 100.

This paper, through an issue of the concept of thought-provoking property and its intersection come to mind culture and heritage, elucidates justness nature and scope of unbroken intellectual property rights as would-be by traditional knowledge, traditional national expressions and genetic resources. That paper, through a review exempt the interface between indigenous provide for systems and the intellectual gear law regime, illustrates the succession of conventional intellectual property insist on systems i.e.: copyright, patent, position secrets and trademark in catering adequate recognition and protection obey indigenous intellectual property rights.

Trample also posits that the creation of a sui generis combination of protection offers a defendable solution to the inadequacy admit the existing regimes of commit. This paper ultimately seeks be acquainted with illustrate indigenous people’s legitimate forthright to control, access and exploit in any way, including demanding others’ access to, knowledge album information that derives from their unique cultural histories, expressions, conventions and contexts, towards the inthing of a better society.

Author Biography

Wanjiku Karanja, Kenya School of Law (Nairobi, Kenya)