Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

For indigenous peoples’ groups, activists and policymakers in intellectual property, and all those concerned with the preservation of our planet’s biological and cultural diversity, Beyond Intellectual Property provides an invaluable and eye-opening look into one of the most provocative and explosive issues of this century and likely the next: the patenting of life.

Graham Dutfield is Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary College London. He is co-editor of Trading in Knowledge (2003, ) and Intellectual Property Rights, Trade and Biodiversity (2002).