Intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions in a digital environment

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lost in tradition? Reconsidering the history of folklore and its legal protection since 1800 / Monika Dommann -- Cannibalizing epistemes : will modern law protect traditional cultural expressions / Gunther Teubner and Andreas Fischer-Lescano -- The Disneyland of cultural rights to intellectual property : anthropological and philosophical perspectives / Elizabeth Burns Coleman -- Human rights, cultural property and intellectual property : three concepts in search of a relationship / Fiona Macmillan -- Using human rights to tackle fragmentation in the field of traditional cultural expressions : an institutional approach / Christoph Beat Graber -- Legal protection of traditional cultural expressions : a policy perspective / Martin A. Girsberger -- "It's a small world (after all)" : some reflections on intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions / Wend B. Wendland -- The lay of the land : the geography of traditional cultural expression / Johanna Gibson -- The long tail of the rainbow serpent : new technologies and the protection and promotion of traditional cultural expressions / Mira Burri-Nenova -- New information and communication technologies, traditional cultural expressions and intellectual property lawmaking - a polemic comment / Herbert Burkert -- Commercializing cultural heritage? Criteria for a balanced instrumentalization of traditional cultural expressions for development in a globalized digital environment / Miriam Sahlfeld -- Traditional cultural expressions and their significance for development in a digital environment : examples from Australia and Southeast Asia / Christoph Antons.