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Busingye, Janice; Keim, Wiebke – International Social Science Journal, 2009
Knowledge has increasingly become an essential resource in the global economy, hence the capitalist tendency to regard it as a form of capital and as a motor for innovation and profit. Like any other capitalist commodity, conflicts over the ownership and use of various types of knowledge have arisen, thereby calling for legal protection.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Copyrights, Global Approach, Social Systems