Intellectual Property Rights

The Parliament of Canada does not contain information exclusively dedicated to indigenous people. However, it offers important insight into how rights and the protection of those rights for indigenous people may be recognized and protected. Intellectual Property rights is a modern phenomenon – one which the website delineates in clarifying the differences between traditional knowledge and Western Science, while simultaneously exploring the limitations of the protections that obtain.

Snippets of the Intellectual Property law toward the end of the webpage contributes to the authenticity of information presented and helps to substantiate the claims made about the need for the protection of the rights of the native people.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/LOP/ResearchPublications/prb0338-e.htm