Please select one of the following questions and provide a thoughtful and critical answer:
a-What does John Locke have to do with IP?
b. What moral problems surround the commodification of cultural symbols and biological
organisms?
c. What are the practical problems that the authors raise about bioprospecting and the
CBD’s objectives
Readings:
Hayden, Cori 2003 From market to market Bioprospecting’s idioms of inclusion.
American Ethnologist 30(3): 359-371.
Peterson, Kristin 2001 Benefit Sharing for All?: Bioprospecting NGOs, Intellectual
Property Rights, New Governmentalities. PoLAR: Political and Legal
Anthropology Review 24(1): 78-91.
