This blog claims to highlight contemporary issues facing indigenous peoples from around the world. The site includes a discussion about intellectual property rights. The author describes intellectual property not as knowledge gained by scientific means, but rather knowledge that is “earned”, through experience in time and place.
The blog also provides links to sites offering different perspectives on the intellectual property issue. For example, the link to the Alaskan Native knowledge Network has its own links to a page entitled “Guidelines for Respecting Cultural Knowledge”, and another entitled “Principles for the Conduct of Research in the Arctic“. As another example, the site links to an Australian Government research paper entitled Indigenous Peoples Intellectual Property Rights. This paper seeks to identify the issues, describe the impacts, and analyse international developments.
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