Protecting Shared Traditional Knowledge

Shared and widely distributed traditional knowledge, among communities and across national borders is often the norm rather than the exception. However, it remains an area for which policy and legal solutions are still to be devised.
Against this background, this paper - Protecting Shared Traditional Knowledge, Issues, Challenges and Options - by Manuel Ruiz Muller (Peruvian Society for Environmental Law) provides an overview of the different facets of this complex issue and suggests a number of options on how to address it, particularly in the context of discussions at WIPO’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore/Traditional Cultural Expressions (IGC).