Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment

Edited by Christoph Beat Graber, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland and Mira Burri-Nenova, Faculty of Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Contents:

Preface

PART I: LOCAL TRADITIONS AND GLOBAL LAW
1. Lost in Tradition? Reconsidering the History of Folklore and its Legal Protection Since 1800
Monika Dommann

2. Cannibalizing Epistemes: Will Modern Law Protect Traditional Cultural Expressions?
Gunther Teubner and Andreas Fischer-Lescano

PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
3. The Disneyland of Cultural Rights to Intellectual Property: Anthropological and Philosophical Perspectives
Elizabeth Burns Coleman

4. Human Rights, Cultural Property and Intellectual Property: Three Concepts in Search of a Relationship
Fiona Macmillan

5. Using Human Rights to Tackle Fragmentation in the Field of Traditional Cultural Expressions: An Institutional Approach
Christoph Beat Graber

PART III: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY
6. Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions: A Policy Perspective
Martin A. Girsberger

7. ‘It’s a Small World (After All)’: Some Reflections on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions
Wend B. Wendland

8. The Lay of the Land: The Geography of Traditional Cultural Expression
Johanna Gibson

PART IV: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENT
9. The Long Tail of the Rainbow Serpent: New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions
Mira Burri-Nenova

10. New Information and Communication Technologies, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Intellectual Property Lawmaking − A Polemic Comment
Herbert Burkert

11. Commercializing Cultural Heritage? Criteria for a Balanced Instrumentalization of Traditional Cultural Expressions for Development in a Globalized Digital Environment
Miriam Sahlfeld

12. Traditional Cultural Expressions and their Significance for Development in a Digital Environment: Examples from Australia and Southeast Asia
Christoph Antons

ANNEX:
Excerpts from Documents of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore

Index