Protecting Knowledge: Conference Kit

Traditional Resource Rights in the New Millennium

 

Conference information

Conference primer (including details on key terms, international legal instruments, national legislation, investor-related policy, background on forestry and mining in BC)

Speaker abstracts and backgrounds

Conference and background papers

1. Discussion paper on Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property: Scoping the Definitions and Issues

Dr. Eber Hampton (President, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College)

Sakej Henderson (Director, Native Law Centre of Canada)

Not available on the web. Please contact the following for availability:
Research and Analysis Directorate
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Suite 510
10 Wellington Street
Hull, Quebec  K1A 0H4

2.  Intellectual Property and Aboriginal People: A Working Paper (link)

Contractors: Simon Brascoupé (Aboriginal consultant, artist and university lecturer) and Karin Endemann (President, Keystone International)

Editors: Michael Cassidy (President, Ginger Group Consultants) and Jock Langford (Senior Policy Officer, Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, Industry Canada)

3. Aboriginal Rights to Cultural Property in Canada 

Catherine Bell (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta) and Robert K. Paterson (Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia) 

Not available on the web. Please view the following:
International Journal of Cultural Property
Volume 8, No. 1, 1999.  pp. 167-211

4. Aboriginal Custom, Copyright and the Canadian Constitution (PDF

David Robbins (Woodward & Company, Victoria BC)

5. An Economic Strategy to Develop Non-Timber Forest Products and Services in British Columbia (link

Russel M. Wills and Richard G. Lipsey (Cognetics International Research, Bowen Island, BC) 

 


 

Indigenous Peoples and the Use of Intellectual Property Rights in Canada: Case Studies Relating to Intellectual Property Rights and The Protection of Biodiversity (link

Howard Mann (International and Environmental Law and Policy, Ottawa, Ontario) 

Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Resource Rights: A Basis for Equitable Relationships (PDF)

Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)

The “Balance Sheet” and the “Sacred Balance”: Valuing the Knowledge of Indigenous and Traditional Peoples (PDF)

Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)

Mind the Gaps: Identifying Commonalities and Divergences between Indigenous Peoples and Farmer Groups (PDF)

Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)

Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (PDF

Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)

Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and Indigenous Peoples in Amazonia: (Re)Discovering the Wealth of Traditional Resources of Native Amazonians (PDF

Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)

By Design: The Protection of Intellectual and Creative Rights (PDF)

Lou-Ann Neel and Dianne Biin (Consortium of Indigenous Arts, Victoria BC)

Sacred Balance (PDF

Aroha Te Pareake Mead (Foreign Policy Convenor & Deputy Convenor, Maori Congress, AOTEAROA, New Zealand)

Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific (PDF)

Aroha Te Pareake Mead (Foreign Policy Convenor & Deputy Convenor, Maori Congress, AOTEAROA, New Zealand)

A Brief History on the Convention on Biological Diversity (PDF)

Fred Fortier (Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, Kamloops, BC) 

International Human Rights Overview: Basic Information and Legal Provisions (PDF

Shelley Wright (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia) 

Our Culture: Our Future – Report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights (PDF)

Terri Janke (Michael Frankel & Company, Melbourne, Australia) 

The Proper Role of Technology in the Determination of Cultural Affiliation (PDF

Brett Lee Shelton (Indigenous Peoples Council of Biocolonialism, Nixon, Nevada), Jhon Goes In Centre (Native Spatial Information, Masonville, Colorado), Bryan A. Marozas (Native Mapping Consultant, Edgewood, New Mexico)

Roundtable on Intellectual Property And Traditional Knowledge Protection of Traditional Knowledge: A Global Intellectual Property Issue, Geneva, November 1 and 2, 1999 (no longer available)

Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples, Geneva, July 23 and 24, 1998 (no longer available)