d. Community Property Rights. It is the ICCs’ entitlement to the recognition
of the full ownership and control and protection of their cultural and
intellectual rights as embodied in Sec. 32 of IPRA.
e. Customary Laws. It is a body of written and/or unwritten rules, usages,
customs and practices traditionally and continually recognized, accepted
and observed by respective ICCs/IPs.
f.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices. These are systems,
institutions, mechanisms, and technologies comprising a unique body of
knowledge evolved through time that embody patterns of relationships
between and among peoples and between peoples, their lands and resource
environment, including such spheres of relationships which may include
social, political, cultural, economic, religious spheres, and which are the
direct outcome of the indigenous peoples, responses to certain needs
consisting of adaptive mechanisms which have allowed indigenous peoples
to survive and thrive within their given socio-cultural and biophysical
conditions.
g. IKSP research. It is the gathering and analysis of data, information and
facts, with the active and full participation of the ICCs/IPs, on the ICCs/IPs’
IKSP
and/or
life
ways
for
purposes
of
gaining
knowledge
and
understanding for its advancement and enhancement, advocacy, basis for
policy, plans and programs, decision making and for the continuity and
protection of cultural integrity. It includes the four Rs; 1) Recover that from
which is possible; 2) Reaffirm that which is relevant; 3) Readopt that which
is necessary for the culture and; 4) Recreate or regenerate that which is
required through new things.
h. IKSP or customary law documentation. It is a process or a technique to
support the IKSP or customary law research or a standalone tool to serve as
evidence to support the existence of IKSP and customary laws.
i.
IKSP as Sui Generis. This means that IKSPs are “a class of its own” and the
collective property of the IC/IP community and therefore the author,
composer, inventor, writer, choreographer, arranger, lyricist, owner, first
user, or preacher is not one individual but all the members of the
community who belong to the past, present and future generations.
j.
Material Benefit. It refers to any type of benefit due the IP community and
it may in the form
of money, goods, or services. It also includes royalty,
shares from its commercialization, and other benefits.
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