Aff Turn – IPR helps facilitate resistance and counter-hegemonic practices – education and participation
Khan 14. Shahrukh Khan was a staff writer for the Harvard International Review. He graduated from Emory University School of law, was a high school teacher at the Success Academy Charter Schools, and was a Legal at Blackstone. He currently works as an associate at Reed Smith LLP. “A new kind of colonialism: the ramifications of intellectual property rights” https://go-gale-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA364854935&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=07391854&p=AONE&sw=w&aty=ip&enforceAuth=true&linkSource=delayedAuthFullText&oweAuth=true&userGroupName=umuser&u=umuser. Accessed through the University of Michigan. Kkang
Thus, Part III focuses on the genesis of rights and the way in which the vesting of copyright protection beatifies certain forms of 9. This is not to suggest that intellectual-property laws inevitably maintain and perpetuate existing social structures. They can also facilitate resistance and counter-hegemonic practices.
The first step to offsetting this imbalance is education. Some Indigenous peoples remain unaware of their rights. Thus, indigenous people must be sensitized to IPR and Western Corporate Patent Laws.
Greater participation from Indigenes is necessary in fighting the issue of biopiracy. Once Indigenous communities understand the principles behind IPR and the differing perceptions of western corporations, they will be able to properly identify the issues limiting their people and act accordingly with respect to international law.
The second step is predicated on whether the first step was executed properly. Nothing is certain before Indigenous peoples understand what exactly is going on outside their communities. They must comprehend the laws, the dynamics of the world economy, and the reasons as to why they are in the situation they are in today.
"Indigenous knowledge rightfully belongs to the people who use it within the context of their local environment ... When it is used in another setting ... this knowledge becomes a tool of exploitation"