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Abstract

Accusations of biopiracy made by indigenous peoples against pharmaceutical companies have brought to the fore the more general question of the commercial appropriation of indigenous knowledge, whether in specialized fields such as biological knowledge, or concerning more encompassing aspects of a culture. We will attempt to answer two more general questions raised by these debates : " to whom does  knowledge belong? " and " how can the rights of its holders be protected ? "