A Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, October 5-10, 1993

土著人民控制着大量的生物多样性和关于这种生物多样性的知识。它们是知识和资源的重要来源。森林砍伐和遗传侵蚀威胁着这些资源。虽然工业国家通过立法和规章实施了知识产权保护，但这些方法不容易推广到本土知识。这次关于知识产权和土著知识之间关系的学术会议将汇集倡导者和无私的专家，讨论包括知识产权制度和土著知识的性质、扩展知识产权的好处和缺点、所涉及的利益以及保护权利的替代方法等主题。土著人民的知识和生物资源。对这些主题的深入讨论需要国家和国际政策和生物资源管理方面的专家、土著群体和倡导者、生物资源的使用者、熟悉土著权利问题和知识产权的法律学者以及民族学家的参与。选择参与者的主要标准是他们对问题的熟悉程度，并期望他们将在他们的主题上贡献一篇重要的学术论文。25位左右的会议参与者的论文将在会议前两个月提交并分发。在会议上的每次演讲后，两位预先指定的讨论者将在公开讨论之前做出回应。为期六天的会议将包括三天的介绍和讨论，两天用于工作组编写关于会议主题的摘要报告。一天将专门用于最后一次全体会议和会议闭幕。成果将包括在适当的专业、科学和利益相关者组织的通讯和期刊上发表的学术出版物和报告。

Indigenous people control significant amounts of biological diversity and knowledge about that biodiversity. They are important sources of knowledge and resources. Deforestration and genetic erosion threaten these sources. While industrial countries have implemented intellectual property protection through legislation and regulation, these formulas are not easily extended to indigenous knowledge. This scholarly conference on the relations between intellectual property and indigenous knowledge will bring together both advocates and disinterested specialists to discuss topics covering the nature of intellectual property regimes and indigenous knowledge, the benefits and drawbacks of extending intellectual property, the interests involved, and alternative approaches to protecting the rights, knowledge, and biological resources of indigenous peoples. Thorough discussion of these themes requires participation from specialists on national and international policies and administration of biological resources, indigenous groups and advocates, users of biological resources, legal scholars familiar with indigenous rights issues and intellectual property, and ethnobotonists. The primary criteria in selecting participants are their familiarity with the issues and the expectation that they will contribute a significant scholarly paper on their topic. Papers commissioned from each of the 25 or so conference participants will be presented and circulated two months prior to the conference. After each presentation at the conference, two pre-assigned discussants will respond prior to open discussion. The six days will include three days of presentations and discussions, and two days for work group preparations of summary reports on the conference themes. One day will be devoted to a final plenary session and conference closure. Results will include scholarly publications and reports in the newsletters and journals of appropriate professional, scientific and stakeholder organizations.