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Suplemento Especial: V Encontro Nacional de Antropologia do Direito

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2018): Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Indigenous intelectual rights in Brazil: legal instruments and ontological conflicts

DOI
https://doi.org/10.19092/reed.v5i3.374
Submitted
January 18, 2019
Published
2019-01-18

Abstract

This work integrates a greater research on indigenous traditional knowledge and its legal regulation. In it,
I try to describe and point out the use of various legal instruments, such as benefit-sharing contracts, intellectual property rights, cultural and immaterial property, community consultation protocols, etc. The
research aims to demonstrate that the use of multiple legal categories, traditional and innovative, consists of
political strategies to protect, promote and defend traditional knowledge. The research uses a review of the anthropological and juridical literature on traditional knowledge in Brazil, aspects of the international debate, as well as interviews and reports from members of traditional communities, anthropologists, advocates and activists from non-governmental organizations. It is concluded, first of all, that, at the same time, for the extension of traditional categories as property, or for the more strict and formalistic use of positive
law, contemporary experiences point at the same time to the formation of an international law from the
bottom up and for the reconfiguration of the uses of “culture”. It is also pointed out for a relative detachment of the terms used in the major international arenas (WIPO, WTO, UNESCO). Case analysis allows us to reflect on the uses of law and its ontological conflicts.

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