New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions

Burri, Mira (2008). New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions. In: Madhuri, V. (ed.) Traditional knowledge : Impediments to IPR Protection (pp. 131-168). Hyderabad: Icfai University Press

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New technologies, in particular those stemming from digitization, allow amongst other things the production of perfect copies, instantaneous and ubiquitous distribution of and easy access to information with no real location restrictions. The effects of these technological advances have largely been perceived as negative for the protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE), both because of the peculiarities of the digital networked environment and because of the lack of appropriate intellectual property protection models for TCE. The purpose of this article is, while accounting for the diversity and complexity of issues related to TCE, to reveal a more positive side of digital technologies. It shows the potential of these to be proactively applied and the further reaching possibilities for designing an efficient multi-level and multi-faceted toolbox for the protection and promotion of TCE in the digital ecology.

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