Place-based branding for locally specific products

Policy Brief

2014

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9917
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Briefing-Note-Place-Based-Branding-for-Locally-Specific-Products.pdf (382.85 KB)
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Open A.I.R. Network
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University of Cape Town

Department
Intellectual Property Research Unit
Faculty
Faculty of Law
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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OpenAIR

Abstract
This Briefing Note outlines findings from Open A.I.R. research into potential use of communal intellectual property (IP) protection by tie-and-dye textile artisans in the Nigerian city of Abeokuta. The researchers, from the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), concluded that the artisans could consider use of a geographical indication (GI), which is a place-based form of IP. The Note also provides recommendations to African producers of locally specific products and to African policymakers, as well as background on different types of GI protection and links to further reading.
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communal trademarks
cost-benefit analysis

Reference:

  1. Place-based branding for locally specific products. (OpenAIR). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Intellectual Property Research Unit. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9917 .
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