Intellectual Property and Indigenous Rights

Books

Articles and Reports

Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, TRIPS and Traditional Knowledge: Local Communities, Local Knowledge, and Global Intellectual Property Frameworks, 10 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 155 (2006).

Richard Awopetu, In Defense of Culture: Protecting Traditional Cultural Expressions in Intellectual Property, 69 Emory Law Journal 745 (2020).

Bryan Bachner, Facing the Music: Traditional Knowledge and Copyright, 12 Human Rights Brief 9–12 (2005).

Michael F. Brown, Culture, Property, and Peoplehood: A Comment on Carpenter, Katyal, and Riley’s In Defense of Property, 17 Int’l J.  of Cultural Prop. 569 (2010).

Kristen Carpenter, Sonia K. Katyal & Angela Riley, Clarifying Cultural Property, 17 Int’l J. of Cultural Prop. 581, 581-82 (2010)

Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonia K. Katyal, & Angela R. Riley, In Defense of Property, 118 Yale L.J. 1022 (2009).

Robert D. Cooter & Wolfgang Fikentscher, American Indian Law Codes: Pragmatic Law and Tribal Identity, 56 Am. J. Comp. L. 29, 30-31 (2008)

Patricia Covarrubia & Lisa Albani, Cultural expressions: the intersection of culture and intellectual creations – Fado as a case study, Intellectual Property Quarterly 29–51 (2017).

Christine Haight Farley, Protecting Folklore of Indigenous Peoples: Is Intellectual Property the Answer?, 11 Connecticut Law Review 1 (1997).

Peter Fitzpatrick & Richard Joyce, Copying Right: Cultural Property and the Limits of (Occidental) Law, 4 in NEW DIRECTIONS IN COPYRIGHT LAW 171–180 (Fiona Macmillan ed., 2007).

Johanna Gibson, Community and the Exhaustion of Culture: Creative Territories in Traditional Cultural Expressions, 3 in New Directions in Copyright Law 15–36 (2006).

Johanna Gibson, The UDHR and the Group: Individual and Community Rights to Culture, 30 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL’y 285–313 (2008).

Richard A. Guest, Intellectual Property Rights and Native American Tribes, 20 Am. Indian L. Rev. 111, 113 (1995-96)

William J. Hapiuk, Of Kitsch and Kachinas: A Critical Analysis of the “Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990”, 53 Stan. L. Rev. 1009, 1064 (2001).

Wanjiku Karanja, The Legitimacy of Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights’ Claims, 1 Strathmore Law Review 165 (2016).

Paul Kuruk, Protecting Folklore Under Modern Intellectual Property Regimes: A Reappraisal of the Tensions Between Individual and Communal Rights in Africa and the United States, 48 American University Law Review 769–843 (1999).

Paul Kuruk, Bridging the Gap between Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Is Reciprocity an Answer?, 7 Journal of World Intellectual Property 429 (2004).

Paul Kuruk, The Role of Customary Law under SUI Generis Frameworks of Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, 17 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 67 (2007).

Margaret Leidy, Protecting Creation: The Twilight Series, Creation Stories, and The Conversion of Intangible Cultural Property, 41 Sw. L. Rev. 509, 532 (2012); 

Suzanne Milchan, Whose Rights Are These Anyway?: A Rethinking of Our Society’s Intellectual Property Laws in Order to Better Protect Native American Religious Property, 28 Am. Indian L. Rev. 157 (2003).

Stephen R. Munzer & Kal Raustiala, The Uneasy Case for Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge, 27 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J.  37 (2009);

James D. Nason,Symposium, Traditional Property and Modern Laws: The Need for Native American Community Intellectual Property Rights Legislation, 12 Stan. L. & Pol’y Rev. 255, 259 (2001).

D. S. Pensley, The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990): Where the Native Voice Is Missing, 20 Wicazo Sa Rev. 37 (2005).

Angela R. Riley, “Straight Stealing”: Towards an Indigenous System of Cultural Property Protection 80 Washington Law Review 69 (2005).

Angela R. Riley and Kristen A. Carpenter, Owning Red: A Theory of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation, 94 Texas L. Rev. 859, 868 (2016)

Angela R. Riley, Recovering Collectivity: Group Rights to Intellectual Property in Indigenous Communities, 18 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 175–225 (2000).

World Intell. Prop. Org. (WIPO), The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (2015), http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_tk_2.pdf. [https://perma.cc/D4QU-BP2E]. 

WIPO, Traditional Knowledge, World Intell. Prop. Org., http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/ [https://perma.cc/DZ6L-7HX3] (last visited Mar. 14, 2018).

WIPO, Traditional Cultural Expressions, World Intell. Prop. Org., http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/folklore/  [https://perma.cc/YAX9-LQQX] (last visited Apr. 18, 2018).

WIPO, Compilation of Information on National and Regional Sui Generis Regimes for the Intellectual Property Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions, (2021), https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/resources/tk_experiences.html.

Legislative Texts and Treaties

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Legal Protection of Azerbaijani Folklore Expressions (as amended up to Law No. 638-IVQD of April 30, 2013), (2003), https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/317312.

Swakopmund Protocol on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of Folklore, , WIPO Lex (2015), https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/201022.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, NAGPRA, Pub. L. 101-601, 104 Stat. 3048 (1990) (codified as 25 U.S.C. §§ 3001-3013).

Tribal Laws/Codes, Tribal Court Clearinghouse, http://www.tribal-institute.org/lists/codes.htm [https://perma.cc/K458-24VQ] (last visited Apr. 20, 2018). 

G.A. Res. 61/295, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of IndigenousPeoples 4 (Oct. 2, 2007) , http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf [https://perma.cc/2QNG-3WSS].

WIPO, The Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Draft Articles, http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=368218 [https://perma.cc/9XDR-ZBQL] (last visited Apr. 18, 2018);

WIPO, Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions: Draft Articles, http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=375036 [https://perma.cc/V6P6-QV57] (last visited Apr. 18, 2018); 

WIPO, Consolidated Document Relating to Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=368344 [https://perma.cc/7XMP-N5YV] (last visited Apr.18, 2018).

Decisions and Cases

The Marshall Trio – Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832); Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831); Johnson v. M’Intosh, 21 U.S. 543 (1823).