Retrieved June 28, 2006, Cautions about this term. "The concept of IPRs is tied to a neo-liberal worldview that says that everything in the world - material goods, creative works, even DNA - can and should be privatised."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24452
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Retrieved June 28, 2006, at http://www.grain.org/jargon/?id=7&docu=%252Fseedling%252Findex%252Ecfm%3Fid%3D196%2b, 2 pages., Expresses concern that the concept of traditional knowledge is being diminished as "fixed, mummified, and unfit for modern times." "What is really being done is crushing or violating the right of many peoples of the world to continue freely creating, promoting, protection, exchanging and enjoying knowledge."
