'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the
Public Domain' addresses one of the most heated policy debates of
our day: access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable
sharing of benefits. Seven scholars - an anthropologist, an
economist, a sociologist, and four lawyers - discuss how a museum
can flesh out the relevant ethical issues that frustrate any purely
technical solution. The visitors to the proposed museum become a
source of considered judgments. Commercial movies are screened and
discussion follows about some aspect of bioprospecting,
intellectual property, and the public domain, suggested in the
films. Both the screenings and discussions occur in small
amphitheatres named according to the uneven chronology in the
management of information: 100,00 BC to 16 September 1787 (public
domain); 17 September 1787 to today's date (intellectual property);
and today's date to (?) (legislation sui generis). The three
amphitheatres surround a courtyard cafe which is a metaphor for the
mission of the museum: conversation. The scholars vet the blueprint
before an imaginary octogenarian who is not at all impressed and
will "say the damnedest things." As this 21st century Don Quixote
moseys across the chapters and pokes fun at the scholarly
ruminations, the reader begins to understand how the proposed
museum is indeed a forum for the nuanced ethics over
bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain. The
dialogue-within-a-dialogue is highly original and entertaining.
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