[Taxacom] Shared Ownership of Biological Resources

[bti at dsmz.de]

One of the issues that was raised recently, centred on the SARS virus
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/83/9/707.pdf
an issue that relates to human health.

This would be also true of any biological material needed to identify  
pathogens/invasive species.

A paper has been published dealing with a limited example of trying to  
keep type material of prokaryote species "in circulation" without  
infringng the issue of "ownership". All very tricky:
http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/58/8/1987

Brian


Quoting Fabian Haas <fhaas at icipe.org>:

> well, the CBD says several times that the national states have sovereign
> rights over their biodiversity. This was introduced to make them protect
> whats in their borders. No way this will change and no way biodiversity
> will be treated as a common heritage anymore. Other discussions in IPR
> will go similar ways. Maybe only Agriculture with their exchange system
> for gen plasms is different.
> Best
>
> Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan wrote:
>>  Pl. see out letter "Shared Ownership of Biological Resources"in Science
>> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/324/5930/1014-c.pdf
>>
>> "....Current negotiations within the framework of the CBD on access and
>> benefit sharing do not address the issues created by nationalization of
>> genetic resources. Hence, a dialogue should be initiated in the next
>> Conference of the  Parties (COP) of the CBD to correct the historic
>> aberration of nationalization and to treat biological diversity as a common
>> heritage of mankind. "
>>
>> PRIYADARSANAN DHARMA RAJAN  AND PRATHAPAN DIVAKARAN
>>
>>
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