M·CAM Proposes Alternative to Patents and Traditional Knowledge Paradigm with the Heritable Knowledge Trust

Date:  Tue, 2008-11-04

M·CAM Proposes Alternative to Patents and Traditional Knowledge Paradigm with the Heritable Knowledge Trust

Charlottesville, Virginia and Suva, Fiji − November 4, 2008 −−Today, M·CAM unveiled its draft legislative framework to establish a basis for the recognition, protection, and stewardship of heritable and indigenous knowledge. This framework, based on existing contract law and jurisprudence, provides WTO and non-WTO countries a legal framework alternative to the regimes of TRIPS, TRIPS Plus and other industrial economy property paradigms with hinder the manifestation of value in most of the world for the benefit of the industrial few.