A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Intellectual property rights and Indigenous dress heritage: towards more social planning types of practices via user-centric approaches
Authors: Ballardini Rosa Maria, Härkönen Heidi, Kestilä Iiris
Editors: Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio, Margaret Hagan, Michael Doherty
Publication year: 2021
Book title : Legal Design: Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology
First page : 82
Last page: 106
ISBN: 978-1-83910-725-2
eISBN: 978-1-83910-726-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107269.00012(external)
The chapter explores the role of legal design in tackling challenges related to balancing protection and access while applying intellectual property rights to indigenous dress heritage (DH). First, we address the problems with the current mainstream approach to IPR, where the main focus is on economic incentives, while societal values are generally less considered. We then contextualize this discourse within the framework of indigenous DH, focusing on Sámi DH. Our analysis shows how moving from a purely economic-centric to a more social-planning type of justification for IPR could help in better reflecting societal values into IP. We argue that a design thinking approach would be important to reach this goal and we elaborate on how legal design could trigger such positive development.