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                     Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2006









                                  Editorial

       Protection and Administration of Folklore in Nigeria






Introduction

Discussions on intellectual Property rights recently extended to traditional Knowledge
issues and the protection of folklore. Generally, globalisation and the information
Technology revolution have pushed the demand for intellectual property protection
beyond the borders of sovereign nations. In the same trend, liberalization,
international treaties, tourism, the media and the steady shift to free market economies
enables greater movements of goods across the world and the need for better
intellectual property protections. Complaints by American and European companies
about rampant intellectual property piracy and counterfeiting in developing countries
are an indication of the extent to which the world famous brands and Hollywood
cinema and music has penetrated foreign lands, supplanting and in some cases even
obliterating the traditional culture and custom of different people in the process-
particularly in the cities.1 On the other hand many developing countries complain that


Paper delivered at Edinburgh.
William 0 Hennessey 'Towards a Conceptual Framework for Recognition of Rights for the Holders
of Traditional Knowledge and Folklore' prepared for 'Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
A review of progress in diplomacy and policy formulation' organized by UNCTAD/ICTSD
OCTOBER 2002 page 1.

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