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:PrefacePART I: LOCAL TRADITIONS AND GLOBAL LAW1. Lost in Tradition? Reconsidering the History of Folklore and its Legal Protection Since 1800Monika Dommann2. Cannibalizing Epistemes: Will Modern Law Protect Traditional Cultural Expressions?Gunther Teubner and Andreas Fischer-LescanoPART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS3. The Disneyland of Cultural Rights to Intellectual Property: Anthropological and Philosophical PerspectivesElizabeth Burns Coleman4. Human Rights, Cultural Property and Intellectual Property: Three Concepts in Search of a RelationshipFiona Macmillan5. Using Human Rights to Tackle Fragmentation in the Field of Traditional Cultural Expressions: An Institutional ApproachChristoph Beat GraberPART III: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY6. Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions: A Policy PerspectiveMartin A. Girsberger7. ‘It’s a Small World (After All)’: Some Reflections on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural ExpressionsWend B. Wendland8. The Lay of the Land: The Geography of Traditional Cultural ExpressionJohanna GibsonPART IV: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENT9. The Long Tail of the Rainbow Serpent: New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural ExpressionsMira Burri-Nenova10. New Information and Communication Technologies, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Intellectual Property Lawmaking − A Polemic CommentHerbert Burkert11. Commercializing Cultural Heritage? Criteria for a Balanced Instrumentalization of Traditional Cultural Expressions for Development in a Globalized Digital EnvironmentMiriam Sahlfeld12. Traditional Cultural Expressions and their Significance for Development in a Digital Environment: Examples from Australia and Southeast AsiaChristoph AntonsANNEX:Excerpts from Documents of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and FolkloreIndex

'This book is a very significant contribution to the question of protecting traditional cultural expressions. . . It is filled with fascinating ideas and perspectives that challenge the reader to rethink the law once again.'