What is biopiracy? And how a new UN treaty tries to get rid of it | DW News
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- More than 190 nations have agreed to a new treaty which aims to combat so-called biopiracy. The treaty demands increased intellectual property transparency by requiring new patent applicants to disclose the origins of the materials used in new inventions. Companies sometimes use Indigenous people’s traditional resources and knowledge, such as medicinal plants, agricultural crops, animal breeds, and other genetic resources in the creation or development of new patents. Traditionally, these companies have not been required to declare the use of such indigenous or biodiverse material, or to protect the resources of Indigenous peoples. After over 20 years of work, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which is the UN’s innovation and patenting agency, has succeeded in galvanizing support for heightened disclosure measures. This landmark treaty is seen as addressing gaps in protection by requiring patent applicants to disclose the origin of the materials used in new inventions and to receive approval for the use of Indigenous knowledge or genetic resources. The treaty, however, does not address the issue of compensation, and Indigenous communities whose materials or knowledge are unlawfully appropriated in new inventions will not be able to seek damages through this biopiracy treaty.
Chapter Breakdown
0:00 - Report on biopiracy
2:40 - Interview with Amber Hartman Scholz, Leibniz Institute
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indigenous practices .. are public domain. Sure it should be protected from patent-squatters but also not held as an exclusive technology by anyone.
Hahaha of course not... Can I go to Louvre and steal the Mona Lisa because it is a Human Heritage?
Public domain? Who Said? 😂
@@dltn42because it’s a practice not an actual piece of physical media
@@critterjon4061tiwan semi conductor technology ,what about that
this sounds like some kind of a joke to me, you cannot get a patent on something like that in the first place
SEE CANNABIS
you can if you know the right people. who will stop you?
what she said is the compensation is already guaranteed by the original convention, this is to protect the source.
Well said. .It has been long awaited!! Can't wait to see its implementation
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Don't expect the US to behave on this one whether it signs up for it or not
Should rather have all of it, public domain, force open source, and maybe limit how much profit can be made
The UN should focus on more important things like conflict resolution.
Indigenous people? They have always just lived there, haven't they?
Yes they were... And companies go there to do research with traditional medicine, put it into a pill and sell it without compensation for those who developed the drug
So... We'll charge them for using a plow? Or a table? Or a brick?, cement?, a laptop?, gloves?
Who comes up with this nonsense?
Don't we charge them at the moment they purchase a plow, a table, a brick, cement, a laptop, gloves? Where do you see nonsense?
@@sheilah_ No. They want to charge you for synthetic substance you make yourself, because it is also in a leaf behind their shed and they were smoking the stuff on fridays.
@@urbansenicar81 , whatever you have been smoking, inhaling or following, it is pretty bad stuff. Maybe a shaman can help you to find your way back. Good luck!
Topical way of thinking of Europeans that fell free to steal indigenous ... But complain when need to acknowledge they steal something 😂
if they were not using them in the first place then please do so. But I have a feeling indigenous tribes in the amazon dont have much use for bricks or cements, let alone laptops lmao.
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Good news.
Coffee is not from Amazon, but from África. Sorry DW.
The best coffee in the world comes from South America. Where do you think the Amazon is actually at?
@@bps7209 This whole topic was about exploiting things (like coffee plants) in areas where they weren't native to. SOO... coffee plants are from the African and Middle East. That places South America squarely in the "owing" compensation to the native peoples from the areas that developed the coffee plant. All of this is ridiculous. WHERE DOES THIS END??
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Coffee is grown all over the world
Yep, coffee is originally from east Africa. Many ppl, like those in this thread, don't know that.
@@42mynameis77 everywhere has plants and species that are not native to or originally from. Some are beneficial, some are not. You use items every day that are not from where you live, but are there. Some were brought, some hitched a ride. There’s not a place on earth that’s not been affected. Do you yourself not use products that aren’t native from where you live? Does where you live have any similarities of what it was a thousand years ago or even 50 years ago? Definitely it’s not. You wish to prosper, but you feel that you can deny others to do so. Correct? This is exactly why countries set land aside to be protected, but everything cannot be protected. It’s life when there’s too many people fighting for too little space.
This is meaningless twaddle.
First of all, even should someone manage to patent a plant, breed or any genetic resource, which are all public domain by default - patents last only 20 years. After that anything patented is public domain. Free to use by anyone. Patents exist to protect original research and invention - but also to prevent monopolies.
Second, it is clear that the treaty protects nothing. It only patronizes indigenous peoples by assuring them that should some patent come from their "traditional resources and knowledge" - that must be declared in the patent. There's zero mention of compensation, partnership or whatever.
Thirdly, should there be some kind of compensation for a patent - once the patent runs out so does the compensation. Twaddle. Also fluff.
The native ppls have discovered the potential of these plants through trial and error, just as scientists do. Now Europeans want to financially benefit from that knowledge, This is why non-yt ppls need to be careful who they tell about their discoveries. Ibogaine, tea tree oil, DMT, etc... we now see how Europeans seek to profit from ancient knowledge. AND it is not true that patents and copyrights end after 20 years. Disney has owned their copyrights for way longer AND they added more time on to the copyright.
Reputation destruction any%
Alright, well,..I hope they can afford all the products with patents and our Western compensation needs as well.
BIG PHARMA BENIFITS but the local people are NOT COMPENSATED.
Typical 😮😢
Thankyou somuch forthis opportunity,, bio piracy,is, serious, causing concern,, thankyou somuch forthis opportunity with regards.
This is great news!
Won’t do a thing
Can this "biopiracy" be used to defend against colonial mining and resource grabs too? Because the aboriginal ppls of Australia, Africa, etc. should have been living like the Sultan of Brunai.
This has been a huge problem since the late 1980-ties! The Costa Rican government was very on about that at that time. One of the key figures in this process was Prof Dan Janzen who put a lot of work into this at that time. I was with him at that time and reported on the challenge. It is absolutely not only about indigenous peoples' resources but also the protection of local, tropical plants from being taken and "patented" by US companies! It is a disgraceful exploitation of native people by the USA!
100%. The rich and powerful continually exploit the poor and vulnerable.
It's corporations not nations
Giving due credit to the right people signifying their contribution. Well deserved!
The indigenous people deserve to get compensated for things like chocolate, corn, bubblegum, rubber, rubber balls these are only a few things that have made countries like the United States and others very wealthy and zero recognition and monetary compensation have gone to indigenous communities this is so unfair!
Blame the US
Why not Brazil
@@tomhenry897 the U.S. makes the most money and has exploited the most out of all
@@bestia2.063 I fail to see your point since the modern version of those thing where either devolved in Europe or the us. Or date so far back that trying to find who to compensate would be impossible
Transparency is key. Without transparency a society is subject to manipulation and downright deceit. An individual humans subconscious works in the same way. A person's waking consciousness is subjected to an unknown but that unknown is part of the consciousness of that person in the same way a shell company hides accountability and motivations. Waking up is the same individually or collectively.
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This is why we have to strengthen the power of the UN.
Will this prevent man made mutated plants cross pollinating with crops from existing species. They infect our food chain becoming dominant and because the new mutants carry patented genes they accuse the innocent farmers of patent infringement
Please get your facts correct. Coffee is from Africa not the Amazon.
It prove not only indigenous peoples are more devloped then that of european 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Patented by God already. All other claims are invalid.
It's about the knowledge of the plant's potential and uses, which are discovered by native ppls and that knowledge is passed down. It's not just about the plant itself.
Let's not forget the corporations that make money out of tobacco, cigars, kayaks, smoking pipes that are sold all over the world. Indigenous people gave the world the concept of zero where many mathematical formulas were developed for modern inventions
We should stop denouncing Nazy Germany if Israel doesn't stop Palestinian genocide. The line is blure