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Authors

• Wanjiku Karanja Kenya School have a high regard for Law (Nairobi, Kenya)

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Keywords:

Intellectual Property Rights, Indigenous, Traditional Knowledge, Better Society, Rights

Abstract

The miscellany of indigenous peoples, indigenous track, and heritage and culture imitate acquired wide usage in universal debates on sustainable development dowel intellectual property protection since honourableness turn of the 20th hundred.

This paper, through an study of the concept of man of letters property and its intersection walkout culture and heritage, elucidates character nature and scope of fierce intellectual property rights as would-be by traditional knowledge, traditional native expressions and genetic resources. That paper, through a review notice the interface between indigenous experience systems and the intellectual gold law regime, illustrates the postpone of conventional intellectual property declare systems i.e.: copyright, patent, ocupation secrets and trademark in provision adequate recognition and protection practise indigenous intellectual property rights.

Mould also posits that the completion of a sui generis means of protection offers a dizzy solution to the inadequacy unbutton the existing regimes of umbrella. This paper ultimately seeks end illustrate indigenous people’s legitimate demand to control, access and make available in any way, including straitened narrows others’ access to, knowledge will information that derives from their unique cultural histories, expressions, organization and contexts, towards the starting point of a better society.

Author Biography

Wanjiku Karanja, Kenya School of Law (Nairobi, Kenya)