Includes bibliographical references and index.

The international debate about traditional knowledge and approaches in the Asia-Pacific region / Christoph Antons -- How are the different views of traditional knowledge linked by international law and global governance? / Christopher Arup -- Protection of traditional knowledge by geographical indications / Michael Blakeney -- An analysis of WIPO's latest proposal and the Model Law 2002 of the Pacific Community for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions / Silke von Lewinski -- The role of customary law and practice in the protection of traditional knowledge related to biological diversity / Brendan Tobin -- Can modern law safeguard archaic cultural expressions? : observations from a legal sociology perspective / Christoph Beat Graber -- Branding identity and copyrighting culture : orientations towards the customary in traditional knowledge discourse / Martin Chanock -- Being indigenous' in Indonesia and the Philippines / Gerard A. Persoon -- Indigenous heritage and the digital commons / Eric Kansa -- Traditional cultural expression and the internet world / Brian Fitzgerald and Susan Hedge -- Cultural property and "the public domain" : case studies from New Zealand and Australia / Susy Frankel and Megan Richardson -- The recognition of traditional knowledge under Australian biodiscovery regimes : why bother with intellectual property rights? / Natalie P. Stoianoff -- Protection of traditional knowledge in the SAARC region and India's efforts / S.K. Verma -- The protection of expressions of folklore in Sri Lanka / Indunil Abeyesekere -- Traditional medicine and intellectual property rights : a case study of the Indonesian jamu industry / Christoph Antons and Rosy Antons-Sutanto.