Commodification of the sacred through intellectual property rights

Posey, Darrell A.

doi:10.1016/s0378-8741(02)00189-7

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“…Geographer Daniel Robinson regards biopiracy as "the appropriation of biological resources and associated knowledge, particularly from the most biodiverse developing countries and from farmers, indigenous peoples and local communities" [46]. Key accounts of biopiracy include Vandana Shiva's Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (1997) [47] and Darrell Posey's work in ethnobiology [48], both of which argue for ethical standards governing the commodification of traditional knowledge, including of medicinal plants. However, while critics of biopiracy advocate stronger rights for indigenous groups and the protection of the intellectual property related to their traditional ecological knowledge, an ethics of reciprocity with non-human species has not figured into their analyses.…”

Section: Cancer Camas and Croton: Traditional Ecological Knowledge mentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward An Ethics of Reciprocity: Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Medicinal Plants as Cancer Therapies

Ryan

2014

Humanities

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This article develops a reciprocity ethics of the environment through a discussion of ethnobotanical medicines used in the treatment of cancer. The moral virtue of reciprocity, defined as the returning of good when good is received or anticipated, is central to the posthumanist rethinking of human relationships to the plant world. As herbal medicines are used progressively more around the globe and as plant diversity decreases as a result of habitat loss and climate change, an ethics of reciprocity should be a concern for environmental philosophers and conservationists. Aldo Leopold's land ethic and J. Baird Callicott's distinction between deontological and prudential environmental ethics provide theoretical contexts for the development of a reciprocity ethics vis-à-vis ethnobotanical species. While this article does not necessarily specify modes or forms of reciprocity, it does outline some of the more prominent ethnobotanical species used in the treatment of cancer, including those from Native American, African, Chinese, and Indian traditions. In the form of a dialogue between the fields of ethnobotany, herbal medicine, and environmental philosophy, this article presents a position from which further articulations of reciprocity can be developed, particularly those involving the rights of indigenous cultures and plants.

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Section: Cancer Camas and Croton: Traditional Ecological Knowledge mentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward An Ethics of Reciprocity: Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Medicinal Plants as Cancer Therapies

Ryan

2014

Humanities

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“…Intellectual property (IP) law to date has not effectively considered the rights of Indigenous peoples as holders of Indigenous knowledge or as victims of exploitation (Mead, 1996;Posey, 2002). Consequently, any attempts to reconcile Indigenous knowledge with conventional intellectual property rights (IPR) must take cognisance of "the growing value of Indigenous knowledge in different areas of scientific, cultural, economic, and commercial endeavour" (Oguamanam, 2004, p. 139).…”

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Enacting Kaitiakitanga: Challenges and Complexities in the Governance and Ownership of Rongoā Research Information

Boulton

Hudson

Ahuriri‐Driscoll

et al. 2014

iipj

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This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a "governance" gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māori individuals or collectives. In the case of a project undertaken in the traditional healing space, the organisation best placed to fulfil this governance role receives no funding or support to take on such a responsibility; consequently by default, this role is being borne by the research team until such time as capacity can be built and adequate resourcing secured. In addition, we have realised that the tensions played out in this research project have implications for the broader issue of how we protect traditional knowledge in a modern intellectual property law context, and once again how we adequately support those, often community-based organisations, who work at the interface between Indigenous knowledge and the Western world.

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“…Indeed, the public domain concept is problematic from the perspective of many traditional societies in which TK holders or others, such as tribal elders, have permanent responsibilities concerning the use of such knowledge, irrespective of whether it is secret, is known to just a few people, or is known to thousands of people throughout the world. 19 Custodianship responsibilities do not necessarily cease to exist just because the knowledge has been placed in the so-called public domain.…”

Section: (Iii) Not Everything In the Public Domain Should Be In The Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Protecting traditional Knowledge

Dutfield¹

2006

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Commodification of the sacred through intellectual property rights

Cited by 73 publications

References 6 publications

Toward An Ethics of Reciprocity: Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Medicinal Plants as Cancer Therapies

Toward An Ethics of Reciprocity: Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Medicinal Plants as Cancer Therapies

Enacting Kaitiakitanga: Challenges and Complexities in the Governance and Ownership of Rongoā Research Information

Protecting traditional Knowledge

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