New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions

TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE: IMPEDIMENTS TO IPR PROTECTION, V Madhuri, ed., pp. 131-168, Icfai University Press, 2008

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 22/2007

38 Pages Posted: 6 Feb 2008 Last revised: 28 Apr 2010

Date Written: May 1, 2007

Abstract

New technologies, in particular those stemming from digitization, allow amongst other things the production of perfect copies, instantaneous and ubiquitous distribution of and easy access to information with no real location restrictions. The effects of these technological advances have largely been perceived as negative for the protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE), both because of the peculiarities of the digital networked environment and because of the lack of appropriate intellectual property protection models for TCE. The purpose of this article is, while accounting for the diversity and complexity of issues related to TCE, to reveal a more positive side of digital technologies. It shows the potential of these to be proactively applied and the further reaching possibilities for designing an efficient multi-level and multi-faceted toolbox for the protection and promotion of TCE in the digital ecology.

Keywords: traditional cultural expressions, protection and promotion, digital technologies, new business, consumer behaviour

Suggested Citation

Burri, Mira, New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions (May 1, 2007). TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE: IMPEDIMENTS TO IPR PROTECTION, V Madhuri, ed., pp. 131-168, Icfai University Press, 2008, NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 22/2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1090824 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1090824

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