From greaves@bucknell.edu Wed Mar 13 07:07:17 1996 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA20429; Wed, 13 Mar 96 07:07:17 -0800 Received: from coral.bucknell.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.03/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA16064; Wed, 13 Mar 96 07:07:15 -0800 Received: from greaves.bucknell.edu by coral.bucknell.edu; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/29Aug94-0956AM) id AA02926; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:06:52 -0500 Message-Id: <9603131506.AA02926@coral.bucknell.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:06:55 -0500 To: indknow@u.washington.edu From: greaves@bucknell.edu (TOM) X-Sender: greaves@mail.bucknell.edu Subject: Roundtable, Ethics and IPR SfAA ROUNDTABLE: Ethical Imperatives of Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights For INDKNOWers who will be attending the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Baltimore, March 27 - 31st, Katy Moran and I want to alert you to a luncheon roundtable we are hosting on the ethical imperatives of indigenous intellectual property rights. The roundtable, meant to be an informal but focused exchange of views and experience, will take place from noon to 1:30 pm on Thursday, March 28th, in the International Room of the Raddison (convention) hotel. The convention organizers have brilliantly made participation simple and inexpensive: No $20 lunch tickets to buy. Roundtable participants buy their lunch at the nearby hotel buffet line and bring it to our adjacent discussion room. This roundtable discussion arises from our growing professional awareness that intellectual property rights concerns pose fundamental challenges to the practice of anthropology. As our indigenous hosts increasingly make conscious choices to withhold, share, or market cultural information, what are our ethical responsibilities? The following questions reflect the dialog we increasingly have with our indigenous hosts: 1. What are the consequences of publishing or otherwise disseminating information on costumes, religious symbols, traditional crafts, music and ceremonies? (Without fully informed consent such symbols may subsequently be found on tee shirts, coffee mugs, and employed by New Age opportunists who appropriate freely and without recompense.) 2. What ethical situations arise with respect to the widening commercialization of indigenous biological knowledge for drug discovery? What form must ethnobotany publishing take in the future? 3. What is informed consent? 4. To what degree is anthropology possible if host societies demand ownership of cultural and botanical information and the apriori right to choose which may be made public? We welcome your own questions to add to this list. The number of participants in the roundtable will have to be limited. Please respond by e-mail if you are interested in joining the roundtable event. We'll put you on the list, and send you more detailed information and a newly published survey of the issues. Reply to greaves@bucknell.edu Katy Moran, Tom Greaves, Chair Executive Director AAA Committee on Human Rights The Healing Forest Conservancy Bucknell University Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania .