Intangible heritage and intellectual property: Challenges and future prospects

Museum International

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 97-107

  Wendland, Wend ^a  

^a WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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EID: 34548442464     PISSN: 13500775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1350-0775.2004.00463.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. See http://www.wipo.int/.
2. See for example WIPO document Consolidated Analysis of the Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions (WIPO/GRTKF/5/3) available in English. French and Spanish at http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/igc/documents/index. html#5
3. This article reviews the key conceptual and policy issues and relevant developments in concise and general terms. For more detail and complete information, readers may consult the WIPO website at www.wipo.int/tk/en/, where all WIPO's working documents, studies and reports are available.
4. In 1998 and 1999, WIPO undertook a series of fact-finding missions to 28 countries, interviewing some 3,000 holders and custodians of traditional knowledge and cultural expressions. The results of these missions has been published as Intellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders, which is available from the WIPO Secretariat or at http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/tk/ffm/report/index.html/. Subsequently, round tables, further fact-finding missions and workshops involving community representatives have been and continue to be organized.
5. New Zealand Trade Marks Act, 2002.
6. See also Glossary: Intangible Cultural Heritage, Netherlands Commission for UNESCO, 2002.
7. See also Wend, Wendland, Cultural Heritage Archives and Databases, Intellectual Property and the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions, conference paper prepared for the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). Annual Conference. Pretoria, South Africa, September 2003.