Indigenous knowledge intrinsically deserves ownership by cultural value
Aoki, law professor with expertise in intellectual property law, critical race theory, and cultural studies, 1998 Keith, “Neocolonialism, Anticommons Property”, Global Legal Studies Journal Accessed from JSTOR on https://www.jstor.org/stable/20644689 on July 25, 2024 //SaChin
The question of the direction of the flow of valuable resources, whether genetic or indigenous agricultural or medical knowledge, is extremely relevant to constructing the intellectual public domain as well. As Vandana Shiva points out, representing the cultural property of non-European peoples as "natural" or "primitive" equates such properties as "unowned" and up for grabs by erstwhile and entrepreneurial "civilized" proprietors. Any formulation of the intellectual public domain must take account of the culture-vound nature of our concepts of property and how: