Publishing cultural heritage generates a “Prior Act”. This protects the real inventors from biopiracy. It requires to use adequate channels of disclosure. This is an activity that is already being done, and I want to explore how to bring it closer to the consumer.
Publishing a knowledge doesn’t necessarily have to remain in the legal field. It is a good occasion to inform the rest of the world.
Promoting can be protective.
“If this is your country, where are your stories ?”, a tribe chef once said the colons.
Now the whole world is our country. And we still don’t know the stories.
As a first step, I considered bringing the story in shops, along with the product. I am also considering different opportunities to make this link a two-way relationship.
The tourist, while traveling, carries information; one comes back from a new place with new stories, willing to tell about them. It is interesting to consider tourists as mediums to make the link more personal. The postcard, as a ritual item, could carry the information, not only text but also more tangible items.
Thus, turning the tourist from a potential threat (disclosing information too widely and informatively) into a resource (relaying a formal disclosure).
Information spreads efficiently through new networks : the internet, podcasts, youtube videos… The wikipatent groups acts as a database for prior acts. But it cannot always be reached. I am considering how these platforms can help relay the information.
