Tracing the Curation of Indigenous Knowledge in a Biopiracy Case
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fabian Simasiku Kapepiso
Richard Higgs
AlterNative, vol. 16, no. 1, March 2020, pp. 38-44
Description
Author discusses how oral tradition is not adequately protected by patent and copyright laws which allows industry to harvest traditional knowledge for profit; uses a case study of pharmaceutical companies to illustrate how this happens.