The continent-wide regulatory initiative was the non- AU’s Agreement on the African Continental Free binding African Model Legislation for the Protection Trade Area (AfCFTA)’s Protocol on Intellectual of the Rights of Local Communities, Farmers and Property Rights (IP Protocol) was adopted by the Breeders, and for the Regulation of Access to 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of Biolog. [...] Such mutually agreed terms as well as the disclosure of provisions are important to protect the interests the source” of the TK, TCEs, expressions of and rights of indigenous communities and are a key folklore and genetic resources (articles 18.6, 19.6 aspect of the draft provisions that will be discussed and 20.6). [...] private sector programmes.” It proceeds to state that the IKS is a tool to “encourage the use of The term of protection will be as provided for in indigenous knowledge in the development of novel, the relevant IP statute. [...] For example, the Copyright socially and economically applicable products and Act will be amended by the addition of a new s28F services” and accepts that “indigenous innovation is to cater for a 50 year term of protection for a a unique approach to social innovation.” These derivative indigenous work from “the end of the perspectives resonate strongly with the AfCFTA IP year in which the work was. [...] the public with the consent of the author or authors; or the date of the death of the author or Section 11 states that to be eligible for protection, all authors concerned, whichever term expires indigenous knowledge must have been: last.” The same section provides that an indigenous work will be protected “in perpetuity”.
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