Today! Don't forget the 'event' TK and IP

Today! Don't forget the 'event' TK and IP

Patricia Covarrubia   September 11, 2020   No comments:

 As noted early on the week under 'upcoming events on this week', today is the day to attend the webinar by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) E-commerce and Intellectual Property for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Entrepreneurs. 

I will be in attendance, will you?

The majority, if not all of our countries in Latin America are rich in genetic resources and traditional knowledge. Many do indeed protect traditional handicraft under Geographical Indications and for instance, Panama has a sui generis Law 20 (2020) which aims to protect TK and TCEs.

In Brazil, there are many local products that have benefited from GI protection (as a sui generis system), and some of them were globally seen in the Olympic games Rio 2016 (opening ceremony). Here you can see a very helpful map of GIs in Brazil.

In Colombia, there are 11 Denominations of Origin granted to handicraft, one of them is the weaving products 'Wayuu' referring to the Wayuu indigenous people. Check out (here)  the list of DOs already granted in Colombia. 

For more inside in how TK is seen as economic activity, check out this paper (available here) that I wrote back in March 2019 (IIC). Remember, GI has the potential to benefit rural communities, but there is some instance that there is no gold at the end of the rainbow. 

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New book is out! Google and the Law

New book is out! Google and the Law

Rodrigo Ramirez Herrera @ramahr   March 08, 2012   1 comment:

Recently was out a new book entitled "Google & the Law" and subtitled "Empirical Approaches to Legal Aspects of Knowledge-Economy Business Models", is published by Springer and is a product of the T. M. C. Asser Press. This book is a global collaboration text (as collective work), edited by our team member Aurelio López-Tarruella Martínez, and contain thirteen papers written by authors from several countries and legal cultures. One of them is our well-known blog founder Jeremy Phillips, who wrote a very interesting article called "Google AdWords: Trade Mark Law and Liability of Internet Service Providers".

The complete text may be read online and soon will be available in paper format. An excerpt is following:

"[G]oogle’s has proved to be one of the most successful business models in today’s knowledge economy. Its services and applications have become part of our day-to-day life. However, Google has repeatedly been accused of acting outside the law in the development of services such as Adwords, Googlebooks or YouTube. One of the main purposes of this book is to assess whether those accusations are well-founded. But more important than that, this book provides a deeper reflection: are current legal systems adapted to business models such as that of Google or are they conceived for an industrial economy? Do the various lawsuits involving Google show an evolution of the existing legal framework that might favour the flourishing of other knowledge-economy businesses? Or do they simply reflect that Google has gone too far? What lessons can other knowledge-based businesses learn from all the disputes in which Google has been or is involved?

This book is valuable reading for legal practitioners and academics in the field of information technologies and intellectual property law, economists interested in knowledge-economy business models and sociologists interested in internet and social networks".

The table of contents is available in internet with some sample pages.

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