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ABSTRACT
ABBRIEVATIONS
Contents
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 12
1. Introduction 12
2. Aim purpose of study 13
3. Scope and Methodology 16
CHAPTER II: BASIS BACKGROUND OF TCES AND INTERRELATIONSHIP WITH IPRS 18
1. Traditional Knowledge 18
1.1. Background brief 18
1.2. Why has Traditional Knowledge become the subject matter of International scale? 21
1.3. Interrelationship between Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights 23
1.4. Available legal mechanism to protect Traditional knowledge 25
2. Traditional Cultural Expression 26
2.1. Terminology 26
2.2. Traditional Cultural Expressions' guideline 29
2.3. Legal purposes to protect Traditional Cultural Expression 30
2.4. Kinds of protection 31
CHAPTER III: THE PROTECTION OF TCES WITH IPRS 33
1. Term definitions 33
1.1. Copyright 33
1.2. Trademark 36
1.3. Aboriginal Law 38
1.4. Indigenous community 39
2. The protection of TCEs with IPRs 40
2.1. The protection of TCEs with Copyright 40
2.2. Use of Trade Marks to protect Traditional Cultural Expressions 52
2.3. The protection of TCEs with Industrial Designs 65
CHAPTER IV: ADEQUATE OR APPROPRIATE LEGAL MECHANISM TO PROTECT TCES 71
1. Attempts to protect TCEs by means of Copyright 71
1.1. Stockholm (1967) Acts of the Berne Convention 71
1.2. Paris (1971) Acts of the Berne Convention 73
2. Indirect Protection By Means of Neighbouring/Related Rights 75
3. Protection by means of Sui Generis system 78
4. WIPO and UNESCO 83
a, WIPO-UNESCO World Forum on the Protection of Folklore (1997) and WIPO-UNESCO Regional Consultations on the Protection of Expressions of Folklore (1999) 83
b, WIPO Fact-finding Missions (1998-1999) 84
c, WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore 84
d, TCEs in UNESCO 85
5. Major International Efforts toward Protection of Traditional Cultural Expression 88
CHAPTER V: APPLY TO DEVELOP THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN VIETNAM ABOUT IPRS FOR LITERARY AND FOLK ART WORKS 91
1. Vietnam Intellectual Property Law about Traditional Cultural Expressions. 91
2. Analysis of the problem 95
3. Amendment for development 96
3.1. Taking the legal protection 96
3.2. Some specific methods 99
CHAPTER VI: CONCLUSION 103
REFERENCES 108