Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge
How can we help poor people to earn more from their knowledge rather than from their sweat and muscle? This paper draws lessons from projects intended to promote and protect the innovation, knowledge, and creative skills of poor people in poor coun...
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okr-10986-156262021-04-23T14:03:20Z Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge Finger, J. Michael TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION POOR PEOPLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY BIOCHEMISTRY ADAPTATION ANIMATION APATHY ARCHIVES ART ARTISANS ARTISTS BELIEFS CEREMONIES CITIES CLOTHING COMPOSERS CRAFTS CREATIVITY CULTURAL CONCERNS CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURES CUSTOMARY LAW DANCE DANCES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DRAWING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ECONOMIC VALUE ECOTOURISM EFFECTIVE USE EMBROIDERY ESSAYS EXPLOITATION FAMILIES FISH GIRLS HANDICRAFTS HEALTH CARE IDENTITY IMPORTS INCOME INDIGENOUS CULTURE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INNOVATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IPR JEWELRY LAWS LEGISLATION MANAGERS MARKET POWER MARKET PRICES MARKETING MINING MONUMENTS MOTIVATION MUSEUM MUSIC MUSIC INDUSTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSICIANS NATURAL RESOURCES ORAL HISTORY PAINTERS PAINTING PAINTINGS PARTNERSHIP PERCEPTION PERCEPTIONS PERFORMANCES PERFORMERS PHOTOGRAPHY PICTURES PLAYS PRINTS PRODUCERS PROPERTY RIGHTS RADIO ROYALTIES SONGS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TOURISM INDUSTRY TRADITION TRADITIONAL CRAFTS TRADITIONAL CULTURE TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONS WORKERS WORKING CONDITIONS WORLD MUSIC How can we help poor people to earn more from their knowledge rather than from their sweat and muscle? This paper draws lessons from projects intended to promote and protect the innovation, knowledge, and creative skills of poor people in poor countries, particularly to improve the earnings of poor people from such knowledge and skills. The international community has paid considerable attention to problems associated with intellectual property that poor countries buy-such as the increased cost of pharmaceuticals brought on by the WTO's agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). This paper is about the other half of the development-intellectual property link. It is about the knowledge poor people own, create, and sell rather than about what they buy. The paper calls attention to a broad range of poor people's knowledge that has commercial potential. It highlights the incentives for and concerns of poor people-which may be different from those of corporate research, northern nongovernmental organizations, or even entertainment stars from developing countries who already enjoy an international audience. The studies find that increased earnings is sometimes a matter of poor people acquiring commercial skills. Legal reform, though often necessary, is frequently not sufficient. Moreover, the paper concludes that the need for novel legal approaches to protect traditional knowledge has been overemphasized. Standard instruments such as patents and copyrights are often effective. Rather than legal innovation, there is a need for economic and political empowerment of poor people so that they have the skills to use such instruments and the influence to insist that institutional structures respond to their interests. Finally, the paper concludes that there is minimal conflict between culture and commerce. There are many income-earning expressions of culture, and it is incorrect to presume that expressions of culture must always be income-using. 2013-09-04T20:55:49Z 2013-09-04T20:55:49Z 2004-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/01/3169235/poor-peoples-knowledge-helping-poor-people-earn-knowledge http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15626 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 3205 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION POOR PEOPLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY BIOCHEMISTRY ADAPTATION ANIMATION APATHY ARCHIVES ART ARTISANS ARTISTS BELIEFS CEREMONIES CITIES CLOTHING COMPOSERS CRAFTS CREATIVITY CULTURAL CONCERNS CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURES CUSTOMARY LAW DANCE DANCES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DRAWING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ECONOMIC VALUE ECOTOURISM EFFECTIVE USE EMBROIDERY ESSAYS EXPLOITATION FAMILIES FISH GIRLS HANDICRAFTS HEALTH CARE IDENTITY IMPORTS INCOME INDIGENOUS CULTURE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INNOVATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IPR JEWELRY LAWS LEGISLATION MANAGERS MARKET POWER MARKET PRICES MARKETING MINING MONUMENTS MOTIVATION MUSEUM MUSIC MUSIC INDUSTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSICIANS NATURAL RESOURCES ORAL HISTORY PAINTERS PAINTING PAINTINGS PARTNERSHIP PERCEPTION PERCEPTIONS PERFORMANCES PERFORMERS PHOTOGRAPHY PICTURES PLAYS PRINTS PRODUCERS PROPERTY RIGHTS RADIO ROYALTIES SONGS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TOURISM INDUSTRY TRADITION TRADITIONAL CRAFTS TRADITIONAL CULTURE TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONS WORKERS WORKING CONDITIONS WORLD MUSIC |
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TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION POOR PEOPLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY BIOCHEMISTRY ADAPTATION ANIMATION APATHY ARCHIVES ART ARTISANS ARTISTS BELIEFS CEREMONIES CITIES CLOTHING COMPOSERS CRAFTS CREATIVITY CULTURAL CONCERNS CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURES CUSTOMARY LAW DANCE DANCES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DRAWING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ECONOMIC VALUE ECOTOURISM EFFECTIVE USE EMBROIDERY ESSAYS EXPLOITATION FAMILIES FISH GIRLS HANDICRAFTS HEALTH CARE IDENTITY IMPORTS INCOME INDIGENOUS CULTURE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INNOVATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IPR JEWELRY LAWS LEGISLATION MANAGERS MARKET POWER MARKET PRICES MARKETING MINING MONUMENTS MOTIVATION MUSEUM MUSIC MUSIC INDUSTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSICIANS NATURAL RESOURCES ORAL HISTORY PAINTERS PAINTING PAINTINGS PARTNERSHIP PERCEPTION PERCEPTIONS PERFORMANCES PERFORMERS PHOTOGRAPHY PICTURES PLAYS PRINTS PRODUCERS PROPERTY RIGHTS RADIO ROYALTIES SONGS SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TOURISM INDUSTRY TRADITION TRADITIONAL CRAFTS TRADITIONAL CULTURE TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TRADITIONS WORKERS WORKING CONDITIONS WORLD MUSIC Finger, J. Michael Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge |
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How can we help poor people to earn more
from their knowledge rather than from their sweat and
muscle? This paper draws lessons from projects intended to
promote and protect the innovation, knowledge, and creative
skills of poor people in poor countries, particularly to
improve the earnings of poor people from such knowledge and
skills. The international community has paid considerable
attention to problems associated with intellectual property
that poor countries buy-such as the increased cost of
pharmaceuticals brought on by the WTO's agreement on
the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS).
This paper is about the other half of the
development-intellectual property link. It is about the
knowledge poor people own, create, and sell rather than
about what they buy. The paper calls attention to a broad
range of poor people's knowledge that has commercial
potential. It highlights the incentives for and concerns of
poor people-which may be different from those of corporate
research, northern nongovernmental organizations, or even
entertainment stars from developing countries who already
enjoy an international audience. The studies find that
increased earnings is sometimes a matter of poor people
acquiring commercial skills. Legal reform, though often
necessary, is frequently not sufficient. Moreover, the paper
concludes that the need for novel legal approaches to
protect traditional knowledge has been overemphasized.
Standard instruments such as patents and copyrights are
often effective. Rather than legal innovation, there is a
need for economic and political empowerment of poor people
so that they have the skills to use such instruments and the
influence to insist that institutional structures respond to
their interests. Finally, the paper concludes that there is
minimal conflict between culture and commerce. There are
many income-earning expressions of culture, and it is
incorrect to presume that expressions of culture must always
be income-using. |
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Finger, J. Michael |
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Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge |
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Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge |
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Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge |
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Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge |
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Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge |
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poor people's knowledge : helping poor people to earn from their knowledge |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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