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Since the Intangible Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, intangible cultural heritage has increasingly been an important subject of debate in international forums.
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Introduction
Patricia Covarrubia
1. Enredados – detangling definitions and strengthening views: A lexicon of relevant terms, institutions, and legislations
Patricia Covarrubia
2. Intangible cultural heritage, intellectual property, and the politics of development in Southeast Asia
Christoph Antons
3. Scaling up and down the edible heritage: Food and foodways as terrains of cultural friction
Raúl Matta
4. Tangled webs and remote paths: Transboundary consent and justifiable downstream limits in the protection of traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources within the context of drug discovery – the problems of a consequentialist account
Peter Harrison
5. The legal protection of intangible cultural heritage: The inadequacy of intellectual property in the Republic of Korea
Gyooho Lee
6. Cross-border safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage through geographical indications and EU collective marks: The issue
Benedetta Ubertazzi
7. Colombian/Panamanian molas: Coping with the challenges posed in protecting and commercialising transboundary intangible cultural heritage
Florelia Vallejo-Trujillo
8. The ‘Pisco War’: A Chilean-Peruvian conflict at the crossroads of an intellectual property regime and intangible cultural heritage
Bernardo Alarcón Porflidtt
9. Cross-border safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage through geographical indications and EU collective marks: Consolidation of litigation through private international law
Benedetta Ubertazzi
10. Code and protocols: Protecting transboundary traditional medical knowledge in Southern Africa
Pamela Andanda
11. Knitting a future for the Aymara’s weavers: The Andean project
Patricia Covarrubia
About the author
Patricia Covarrubia is a Reader of Law at the University of Buckingham, Law School, UK. She is an intellectual property consultant at the Latin America IPR SME Helpdesk, co-funded by the EU Commission, and a member of the Comité Scientifique at Centre de coopération internationale en recherche (CIRAD), working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions. Patricia is manager and blogger at IPTango (Intellectual Property weblog – Latin America).
Summary
Since the Intangible Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, intangible cultural heritage has increasingly been an important subject of debate in international forums.
