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Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples: An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Siegfried Wiessner
Siegfried Wiessner*
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St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, Florida
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Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 95 , 2001 , pp. 151 - 153
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2001

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References

1 Erica-Irene A. Daes, United Nations, Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous People, (1997) (with further references) ; Marie Battete & James (Sa’ke‘j) Youngblood Henderson, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge (2000); see also Daes, Erica-Irene A., The Indispensable Function of the Sacred, 13 St. Thomas L. Rev. 29 (2000)Google Scholar.

2 From the vast literature, see Thomas R. Berger, A Long and Terrible Shadow. White Values, Native Rights in the Americas, 1492-1992 (1991) ;Robert Jaulin, La Paix Blanche, IntroductionàL’ethnocide (1972); Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism and the Cant of Conquest (1975); The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonialization and Resistance (M. Annette Jaimes ed., 1992) ; Strickland, Rennard, Things Not Spoken: The Burial of Native American History, Law and Culture, 13 St. Thomas L. Rev. 11 (2000)Google Scholar.

3 S.James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (1996) ; Barsh, Russel L., Indigenous Peoples in the 1990s: From Object to Subject of International Law, 7 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 33 (1994)Google Scholar.

4 Wiessner, Siegfried, Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples: A Global Comparative and International Legal Analysis, 12 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 57, 58-93, 101-07 (1999)Google Scholar.

5 Darrell A. Posey & Graham Dutfield, Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights For Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities 121 (1996) (quoting Ray Apoaka).

6 For a thoughtful discussion, see Coombe, Rosemary J., Intellectual Property, Human Rights & Sovereignty: New Dilemmas in International Law Posed by the Recognition of Indigenous Knowledge and the Conservation of Biodiversity, 6 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 59 (1998)Google Scholar. See also Prott, Lyndel V., An International Legal Instrument for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, in “In Einem Vereinten Europa Dem Frieden Der Welt Zu Dienen. . . “: Liber Amicorum Thomas Oppermann 657 (Classen, Claus Dieter, Dittman, Armin, Fechner, Frank, Gassner, Ulrich M., & Kilian, Michael eds., 2001)Google Scholar.