TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS
THE CREATIONS AND INVENTIONS OF GROUPS THAT MAINTAIN THEIR TRADITIONS ALSO DESERVE REGULATION TO PROTECT THEM
For millions of years, knowledge was transmitted without the need for property rights, or at least without the need for "our" property rights. Even today, ethnic groups around the world maintain these roots of the original inhabitants.
For these peoples, their creations, the expressions of their culture, have a more personal than commercial meaning. They are expressions that identify a community, its social identity, its culture and its values. They have never commercially exploited their creations and, according to their norms, they are not things that can be exploited. However, from our culture of intellectual property, not only are they things that can be exploited, but also, because of their age, they are in the public domain and therefore available to everyone.
How should we deal with the clash between different cultures? Or, rather, how should we deal with the incursion of our culture into these more fragile indigenous cultures? These are the questions raised by this way of looking at intellectual property.
WHAT WE DO AT S/M
COPYRIGHT
The rights of authors, of those who create and communicate culture through their works
RIGHTS RELATED TO COPYRIGHT
Artists, producers and performers enable authors’ works to reach the general public
DESIGN LAW
Between the useful and the beautiful, designers produce objects that stride the line between creation and invention
TRADEMARK LAW AND OTHER DISTINCTIVE SIGNS
These are the signs, names and/or graphics that distinguish a product or service from others
DOMAIN NAMES
Are alphanumeric signs that delineate and lead to your little piece of space, but in virtual territory.
PATENT AND UTILITY MODEL LAW
Protects inventors, who invent things that facilitate our relationship with the environment in which we live
PLANT AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LAW
These are special inventions because they involve the modification of living beings, animals or plants.
INDUSTRIAL SECRET
The oldest form of protecting innovation, with contractual formulas
COMPETITION LAW AND UNFAIR COMPETITION
Fair competition must be regulated because competition is necessary, except when it is unfair
PATRIMONIAL RIGHT TO IMAGE
Image is the personal property of those who are able to give it value and can trade with it
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW
All of the above and more, but filtered through the technologies that digitisation has brought with it
DATA PROTECTION
Data and the information it provides is the new oil, and its use must be regulated
ENTERTAINMENT LAW
Another way of looking at intellectual property, from the mass media and the entertainment industry
ADVERTISING LAW
Creations affected by many rights, consumption, ip, image or competition
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS
The creations and inventions of groups that maintain their traditions also deserve regulation to protect them