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Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson has been found guilty of 18 counts of rape in a military trial. His victims were six women trainees at the Army's Arberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
KWAME HOLMAN: The 32-year-old staff sergeant was found guilty of raping six women trainees at the army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. A six-member jury of his military superiors convicted Simpson on 18 of 19 rape counts. He could face life in prison when he's sentenced later. Simpson is the first of twelve Aberdeen drill instructors to face courts martial for sexual misconduct.
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To date, the scandal has resulted in four settlements through plea agreements or administrative action. Simpson's was the first rape conviction. In testimony over the last two weeks several women privates accused Simpson of harassment, assault, and rape during her 20 months as a drill instructor at Aberdeen.
Military prosecutors said the six foot, four inch Simpson used his physical superiority and powerful position as an advanced training instructor to prey on the women who had just finished basic training. Last week as Simpson's case went to the jury his civilian defense lawyer, Frank Spinner, contended Simpson never raped anyone and had only consensual sex with willing recruits.
FRANK SPINNER: I'm saying all the women who said they were raped were lying.
KWAME HOLMAN: Simpson's court martial and allegations of sexual misconduct at Aberdeen and other bases have given new visibility to issues emerging from the gender integration of the military. Until two years ago women in the army trained in all-female units, but in 1994, in a major policy shift, women were integrated into basic training groups, and for the first time their drill sergeants were men.
In the chain of command the drill sergeant is the recruit's symbol of discipline, with almost unquestioned authority. The sexual misconduct charges by young women trainees at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground were followed by similar charges from women elsewhere in the army and prompted an army-wide investigation.
Last fall, the army set up a hotline to take reports of sexual misconduct. The army says more than 5,000 women have called, and there are 325 investigations of misconduct now ongoing at army installations around the world. Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson's convictions today mean he could be sentenced to life in prison. Simpson earlier pleaded guilty to eleven counts of improper consensual sex and five counts of propositioning. For those crimes he faces dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay, and up to 32 years in prison.
JIM LEHRER: For more on this now to Mark Thompson, national security correspondent for Time Magazine. Mark, welcome. This was considered the most important of all these cases, was it not?
MARK THOMPSON, Time Magazine: That's correct.
JIM LEHRER: Why?
MARK THOMPSON: It's considered the most important, Jim, because it involved the most charges against a single soldier at Aberdeen and the most serious charges in terms of rape. It is the fulcrum on which the army hopes to build the rest of its cases, and there were a lot of folks in the Pentagon holding their breath, hoping the jury would return a verdict like they did today.
JIM LEHRER: And the key to it is this term "constructive force," is it not? First of all, explain to us what that words means and why it applies in these cases.
MARK THOMPSON: In the civilian world when people think of rape, I think they think of brutality and physical force being used to intimidate, coerce, hurt a victim into doing the perpetrator's bidding.
JIM LEHRER: Using a weapon, even?
MARK THOMPSON: Right. Something--threatening physical harm. Constructive force simply means I am your boss; I am your commander; and essentially you are scared to death of me. And if I tell you to do something, as a drill sergeant, you're going to do it, whether or not I bring a weapon to bear upon you. And that's what the army was trying to convince the jury happened in this case. And although they deliberated for over thirty hours over five days and there was a lot of doubt that they were going to buy into this. In the final analysis they did.
JIM LEHRER: Now, consensual sex, which is what the defense said was all that was involved here, that would have also been against the rules in the military, right?
MARK THOMPSON: Yes. I think the idea of consensual sex in the military is almost an oxymoron. I mean, if I've got to follow your orders all the time, or if you're going to send me into battle and perhaps allow me to die, well, then you can just as easily, you know, order me to have sex with you. And the fact of the matter is that consensual sex between a superior officer and a subordinate just rots, just corrodes, is very corrosive of the good order and discipline we need in a military force, and that's why the army felt very strongly that it had to prevail on this issue.
JIM LEHRER: Now, the--the jury--explain the differences between--we saw the drawings in Kwame's piece. There were six members of the military on this jury, not twelve, as there would have been in the--in the civilian world. Explain the basic differences here.
MARK THOMPSON: Well, the basic differences on the jury is it is, indeed, six members. They are all of superior rank to Sgt. Simpson. There were, I guess, five men and one woman, two blacks and four whites. They did not have to reach a unanimous decision. We don't know yet what the breakdown was. But it's highly likely the votes may not have been six to zero. They might have been five to one on some counts, or four to two on other counts. But so long as there was that four to two margin, in other words, there wasn't a unanimous finding of guilt, but there was a preponderant finding of guilt, the accused is deemed to be guilty. And that's much different than what you find in the civilian courts.
JIM LEHRER: Now, what is the appeal process for Sgt. Simpson compared to what he would have if it were a civilian case?
MARK THOMPSON: It's pretty similar in that he's got three layers yet to go. I mean, if he is sent away to prison for more than a year, which is almost a certainty, it will be an automatic appeal. It will go to the army court of appeals. If he or his attorneys don't like that verdict, there is an armed forces court of appeals which, like our Supreme Court, can opt to hear the case or not to hear the case. And finally, if he doesn't like either of those two decisions, he can appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
JIM LEHRER: Now, all of these other cases, as--here again--as Kwame said, there are 325 active cases, active investigations going on in the army as a result of these 5,000 phone calls and other things. Can you give us an overview of this to the status of those?
MARK THOMPSON: Well, you've got �em at Fort Leonard Wood; you've got �em in Germany; you've got �em in Texas at various bases. Most of �em are occurring at the 16 bases that are run by TRADOC, the army's Training and Doctrine Command, of which Aberdeen is one. It's a place where soldiers go after basis training to learn sort of the mid-level skills they'll need to know. For example, at Aberdeen, everybody involved in this case, essentially, was someone who was learning or someone who already knew how to be a mechanic on various track vehicles or on artillery systems.
JIM LEHRER: These were not recruits.
MARK THOMPSON: No.
JIM LEHRER: These were not boot camp.
MARK THOMPSON: These are not raw recruits.
JIM LEHRER: Not raw recruits.
MARK THOMPSON: This is the next layer above raw recruits. They were not yet what the military likes to say--these folks, these victims were not yet in the real army. You know, they were still in training. So they still were vulnerable to that degree. They had oversight by their drill instructors, you know, essentially 24 hours a day, so it was very much of an environment where their superiors had a lot more power over them than they would have had, had these folks been out in the regular army.
JIM LEHRER: Was it an accident that the Simpson case was the first one that went to trial?
MARK THOMPSON: I think it was a deliberate decision. Obviously in the light of today's verdict, the army is going to be able to go to any other drill sergeant facing similar charges and saying you can go through a full-fledged court-martial like Sgt. Simpson did, and look what happened to him, or we can settle this administratively, and, you know, we can kick you out, send you to prison, do whatever needs to be done. They've already done this with a couple of folks at Aberdeen. And I think today's decision is likely to make that a lot more--happen a lot more.
The fact of the matter was if it had gone the other way, you know, these folks who are currently in the box facing penalty would demand court-martials. Now, I think it will shift the other way, and the army, frankly, will be glad to see that happen. That means there won't be this public brouhaha, and maybe some of these cases can essentially be settled totally behind closed doors.
JIM LEHRER: Speaking of the public brouhaha, finally, Mark, has--have you picked up any serious discussion within the leadership of the military, civilian or military side, about, hey, wait a minute, maybe the commingling of sex in the army may not be the may to go, maybe we need to rethink our training, et cetera?
MARK THOMPSON: There is some of that, but I don't think it's very serious. I mean, the fact of the matter is that they fight integrated; they need to train as an integrated unit. And effectively, when President Clinton fought the battle on gays in the military, he lost because the military combined with the Congress said, no, no, no, no. It's going to be a very dangerous precedent, I think, if this time around people basically say, you know, our army men can't help themselves, ergo we need to protect our women by keeping them apart. I think that would send a very bad signal, and I think it would be done for the--the mischief of just a few. And I don't think the army can afford to allow that to happen.
JIM LEHRER: Just a few. The impression in the public is there is a lot of this going on out there in the army.
MARK THOMPSON: Well, there are dozens plainly, but there are thousands of drill sergeants.
JIM LEHRER: I hear you. Thank you very much, Mark.
MARK THOMPSON: Thank you, Jim.
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[quote][i]Originally posted by emmyc[/i] [br]Deb when I read your post I made noises myself. I recall the same thing when I first went into Webs and immediately lost my sister in law and didn't find her for almost an hour! My small of group of knitting buddies and I fieldtripped to a new LYS. I think we kept track of each other by listening for noises( gasp!, ooh!, ahh! OMG this is soft!). It was like how pods of whales keep track of each other and communicate. Knitting herd noises. emmyc winchester ma [/quote]
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Posted - 12/30/2007 : 1:24:11 PM
I make sure no one is looking then hold it up to my nose (not touching, don't worry) and smell it quite thoroughly. Not only will I be touching it and seeing it for hours and hours, I'll also have to smell it. Some yarns/dyes have a distinctive smell - I had better like it, or I won't buy the yarn. NO WEIRD-SMELLS!
I have a pair of dp knitting needles made out of some strange plastic - brand name is Swallow. I don't like them because...they have a smell. tried to donate them to my college daughter who has just discovered knitting - she took one sniff and said, "weird smell." Guess some quirks are genetic.
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Now that you mention it, I think I do have a ritual:
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I spot something that interests me.
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Reach a hand into the bin and lightly stroke it. To I get a tingle?
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Then I pluck up a likely looking hank and cradle it in both hands, feeling the yarn on my palms and stroking it gently with the tips of my fingers. I examine the color closely. Does it look as attractive in the light as it did in the bin?
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I examine the band to verify the fiber content and weight of the yarn. I'm pretty good at gauging weight on site, but I'm always second guessing myself and have to check and double check this at least three times before I buy anything.
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By now, the warmth of my hands as lent a little warmth to the yarn. I don't purposefully set out to sniff the yarn, but this is the point at which I would begin to be able to smell anything "interesting."
Step 6:
Decision time.I stand or squat in front of the bin, staring at the yarn. I pace the store, returning to the yarn at the end of each circuit. I pretend I don't really want to buy the yarn.
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I buy the yarn.
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 04:40:41 AM
Deb when I read your post I made noises myself. I recall the same thing when I first went into Webs and immediately lost my sister in law and didn't find her for almost an hour!
My small of group of knitting buddies and I fieldtripped to a new LYS. I think we kept track of each other by listening for noises( gasp!, ooh!, ahh! OMG this is soft!). It was like how pods of whales keep track of each other and communicate. Knitting herd noises.
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Posted - 04/10/2012 : 08:56:08 AM
lol, Deborah, enjoyed your story! Imagining it in my head and it seems very funny/wonderful.
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Posted - 04/09/2012 : 08:17:34 AM
Have used Addi Turbo Lace needles for past 2 years to knit socks, and they do not emit any smell. So they seem to indeed have solved the odor problem.
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Posted - 04/03/2012 : 04:15:25 AM
Wow! From reading the above posts, I realize I am missing an entire sensory experience by NOT smelling wool. I smell everything, but it hasn't occurred to me to sniff wool. I will tell you something I've noticed when yarn shopping, which I find amusing:
Recently, my bestest knitting buddy and I made a trek to WEBS. It was a fantastic trip. When we walked in the door, I heard orgasmic gasps coming from here and there. I commented to Jeanette, who was not only not listening to me, but was off down an isle on her own orgasmic journey. We shopped for a couple hours and, even though I didn't "sniff," I "listened. When i go next time 9and I WILL go next time!), I will find a way to note the sounds at WEBS. What a great palce! Like a Disneyland for knitters.
Posted - 04/01/2012 : 1:30:43 PM
Well, I guess I'm not as weird as I thought for I too smell my yarns when I pick them up.
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Posted - 03/10/2012 : 11:04:08 AM
Oh good, I thought my habit was weird and sort of embarassing. But it makes perfect sense to me. I am very sensitive to smells and can't really contemplate enjoying knitting for hours with a yarn of which I hated the odor.
As a further expansion on this theme, I had a weird experience a few years ago. I bought a pair of Addi Lace needles and could not abide the brassy smell. I wrote to Skacel and they told me (while not acknowledging a problem or offering recompense), that they had made adjustments in the newer version and they (supposedly) have no odor. Turned me off so bad, I gave them away. Fortunately, the bulk of my needle collection are Addi Turbos and Addi Clicks, but sometimes, I would like that sharper point. Has anyone else had a problem with the smell of Addi Lace needles?
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Posted - 12/29/2011 : 07:02:12 AM
Jan, My kids say I have a nose like a beagle. I was at work once and smell gas. No body here smell it I went out side and the city gas company had broke a line. Now if I say I smell something people get up and check it out. Donna
Posted - 12/23/2011 : 06:26:12 AM
Ummmmm......yarn smells?
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Posted - 12/22/2011 : 07:15:02 AM
I buy nearly all my yarn online, so I get to indulge my little habit in the comfort of home. I've discovered that I'm a yarn sniffer too. I absolutely love the smell of wool, and I breathe it in like perfume...bliss!
Since I mainly use wool and other natural yarns, I didn't think anything of this little habit until I ordered some 100% acrylic yarn. As usual, once I unpacked the skeins, I raised one to my nose and started to inhale a nice, deep breath ....and recoiled in horror. It stank! It stank so much it just about cleared my sinuses. I've been airing it for weeks now, and it STILL stinks!
I know that not all synthetic yarns smell like this, and I have no idea why this one does, but if it doesn't shape up soon, I'm going to have to give it away to the local thrift store. Perhaps one of their customers with a diminished - or different - sense of smell will enjoy working with this pretty, but very odiferous, yarn.
Posted - 04/27/2011 : 11:53:18 AM
Lol! Love it! When I was young, and living in farm country, one of my friends brought over her 4H lamb just after she had groomed it out for a show. I buried my face in that Merino wool on the Hoof and just loved it. I fluffed up the place again and we laughed. We both loved that smell of freshly groomed Lamb.
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Posted - 04/23/2011 : 10:27:20 AM
So yesterday I'm organizing my knitting basket, moving this here and putting this yarn with that yarn, and every minute or two I grab this giant soft skein of woolly boucle that's just soaked in lanolin and smash it up against my face and take a few great, deep breaths. Sort sort sort. Grab smash breathe. Sort sort sort.
Cracked myself up when I realized what I was doing.
Different is good. ~Matthew Hoover
Posted - 02/19/2011 : 3:35:34 PM
I take a sniff of most yarn and don't need to get it close to my nose, either. Sometimes when I'm gifted yarn without a band, I will breathe into it and then smell it. Wool has a nice odor, other yarns hardly smell at all. My mother had to use pure lanolin on her hands because they got so dry from her extensive gardening. I love the smell of lanolin. Very earthy.
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Posted - 02/19/2011 : 08:59:48 AM
I don't like weird smelling yarn either.
I just knit my first cowl, using a merino/alpaca blend.
It smelled fine whilst dry, but to my horror, upon blocking, it gave off a distinct odour of wet sheep!
I can only imagine what a drenched alpaca would smell like, in the wild.
When it dried the smell dissipated.
I'm averse to getting caught in the rain if I'm wearing it, though.
Posted - 05/11/2010 : 2:28:33 PM
I have a sensitive nose - years ago, a friend would always try to stop me from smelling things, saying, "You're not a dog!" I, too, sniff yarn. Some have a synthetic smell that I don't like. One of my least favorites, though, was a yarn that's been around for decades that has quite a bit of the lanolin still in it. Nope, didn't like that smell at all.
Posted - 05/08/2010 : 3:23:28 PM
I love to sniff yarn for a slightly different reason: I love the smell of most yarns. I wouldn't like a chemical smell and could never tolerate smoke - ugh!, but I adore the natural fragrance of wool, cotton, silk, etc. I swoon at the scent of lanolin. It's all part of the experience for me.
Posted - 02/10/2008 : 3:06:41 PM
I haven't come across a yarn that has smelled bad (unless it's wet wool) - the only smell that would bother me is if the yarn smelled of smoke, and I'd hope a LYS wouldn't be smoky!
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Posted - 02/10/2008 : 2:58:14 PM
I smell my yarn before buying it for a different reason. I bought some from a store that was in the Bargain bin, and when I got it home, it smelled like cigerette smoke. I could barely stand using it.
So from then on, I have always smelled the yarn before I bought it.
Posted - 01/27/2008 : 07:19:11 AM
Being a relatively new knitter (after a 25 year hiatus), I have discovered that I am a yarn sniffer too! I first touch, then squeeze then run my fingers along a strand rub it on my cheek and then sniff. For me the sniff test is very important because if I can smell it, it's hard to work with. I'm probably missing out on some great yarns, so if there's a stinky one out there that's worth it let me know.
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Posted - 01/24/2008 : 4:27:44 PM
My husband can't stand the scent of knit silk...woven is okay. Washing doesn't seem to help.
I can't stand any wool that smells musty. Fortunately that scent does tend to wash out.
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Intellectual Property Law » Intellectual Property Rights » Traditional Medicines And Intellectual Property Rights (Ipr) Issues
Traditional Medicines And Intellectual Property Rights (Ipr) Issues
Developed from experience gained over the centuries and adapted to the local culture and environment, Traditional Knowledge/Traditional medicinal practices were transmitted orally from generation to generation. It tends to be collectively owned and takes the form of stories, songs, folklore, proverbs etc. attached to cultural values, beliefs, rituals, community laws and local language.
Research in Traditional Medicines shall be encouraged for the better understanding of the mechanism of action of drugs being used, chemical reactions happening during its processing by the body, active principles responsible for the particular action of the drug and the identification of the molecules responsible for toxicity reduction etc. The potential portfolios of research include standardization of various drugs, modifications in the 'form' and 'route' of drug administration, enhancement of shelf-life of the drug, quality standards of drug production, and innovations in processing, packaging, storage, transport, delivery etc. There is no bar on the researchers to take out a patent on the substantially improved version of Traditional Knowledge or on development of new drugs based on Traditional Medicine principles.
However misappropriation of Traditional Knowledge by private business outfits has become quite rampant nowadays, owing to the vulnerability of it being "passed off" as inventions. Though "Intellectual Property" does not include "knowledge" in the strict sense, plenty of patents have already been taken on Traditional Knowledge (Especially Traditional Medicines). Of course, there are a few sagas of successful revocation of some of those patents, but at the cost of exchequer.
The patent Examiners are not left with any choice other than granting a patent on an "invention" reaching his table "in the form of a document", if it "fits to his logic" that it is an industrial innovation and not in the public domain. Many Corporate establishments pass off "Traditional Knowledge" as if it is an invention made by them and many a times it is easy for them to get through the formalities since such knowledge is not sufficiently codified and made available to the Examiner in a searchable database. In the recent past, CSIR India has been engaged with creating a traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL), a database that will serve as "prior art" against any move to register patents based on Traditional Knowledge. 'Prior art' is meant to encompass everything that has been published, presented or otherwise disclosed to the public on the date of patent (the prior art includes documents in foreign languages disclosed in any format in any country of the world).
India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) contains approximately 2.08 lakh formulations based on Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga. The formulations have been transcribed in five international languages viz. English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese with the objective of preventing misappropriation of Traditional Medical Knowledge at the International Patent Offices. India has already shared the TKDL with European Patent Office (EPO) and USPTO on an agreement that EPO and USPTO shall utilize the database for search and examination only and shall not make any third party disclosure except for the purpose of giving a copy of the printout to the inventor/applicant as citation. The Access Agreement signed with these patent offices unequivocally mentions that TKDL is a "prior art". I wonder how 'confidentiality' can be maintained if TKDL is treated as a 'prior art'.
While the codification of Traditional Knowledge in to Digital Libraries and sharing it with patent offices is a viable solution to direct misappropriation, it is feared that such digital libraries may serve as a platter for capitalists looking for private appropriation of improvements on such traditional knowledge that is not accessible otherwise. Of Course, TKDL is the right strategy to prevent the direct misappropriation of Traditional Knowledge already in public domain and known to a large cross-section of people (wound healing property of turmeric for example). However, it is learnt that the concept of TKDL is being extended (in combination with "Prior Informed Consent" and "Access and Benefit Sharing" tools) to enable codification of community-owned Traditional Knowledge also. In the latter case, it is a clear injustice to those communities, if TK of this nature is shared with patent offices.
It is hard for the Patent offices to keep the contents of TKDL secret from third parties, since no patent could be denied without disclosing the coded TK associated with the invention to the claimant. Patent Examiner can limit the scope of a patent claim on TK (or reject it altogether), only if he/she gives the relevant extract from TKDL to the inventor to show that it is a "prior art". Fraudsters may file patent applications purely on conceptual grounds (which would look like as if they had performed the invention), only to see that they could fetch the authentic information on a TK practice/product.
It is debatable whether TKDL stops Bio-piracy or facilitates it.Instead of TKDL, a "Traditional Knowledge Docketing System" (TKDS) [something like Management Information System (MIS)] may be created and maintained by authorities. TKDS shall contain the location at which the Traditional Knowledge is available, the community that possesses the TK,a short description of nature of TK and the PROTOCOLset by the communities/TK holders for providing access to such Traditional Knowledge. TK communities shall be educated about their entitlements on the TK and they shall be empowered to negotiate their due share of monetary benefits in commercializing the TK owned by them. However documentation of the TK in public domain may be done in national interest (In the form of TKDL). This shall be laid open to public.
As the Concepts like "Prior Informed Consent", "Access and Benefit Sharing" etc. have proven to be the wrong tools to make the Knowledge in the custody of Traditional Practitioners available for further research while upholding their interests. A sui generis legislation for the protection of Traditional Knowledge is the need of the hour.
Suigeneris legislation for "rights" on Traditional Knowledge : Kerala's IPR Policy Imperative
IPR Policy of Kerala underscores that the Government is very much concerned about protecting its rich traditional wealth comprising of Traditional knowledge practices, Tribal medicines, Ayurveda practices and biodiversity. The Policy released on 27th June 2008, finds that the possible solution could be to acknowledge the deemed rights for the Traditional Knowledge holders and make them aware of their rights. The policy document proposes to commit all traditional knowledge, including traditional medicines, the practice of which sustains livelihoods of many, to the realm of "Knowledge Commons" and not to the "Public Domain". "Knowledge Commons" refer to the knowledge, which is the collectively produced sphere of ideas and which is left unencumbered for the greater benefit of all.
The ownership is attributable to the State/Crown, given the fact that TK is an accumulated traditional wealth and the long kept preserve of its practitioners, tribal communities and families, wherein all of them act as deemed "trustees" of the State/Crown. Hence, the intention of the proposed legislation is 'not exactly the creation of rights on TK', but assigning some of the rights (not all the rights) owned by the State to those "deemed trustees", in return of their willingness to put the TK to the realm of "Knowledge Commons"
Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, over-patenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. As per the latest reports, many of the Digital Libraries are now on their way to becoming 'Knowledge Commons'. The "Knowledge Commons" will be a vibrant, user-centred learning facility integral to the academic lives of students. The Commons will integrate scholarly resources, information technology, software, expertise, instruction and study space.
While the Policy envisages proprietary rights on traditional knowledge, all the right holders will be deemed to be holding their rights under a "Commons License", wherein the right holders shall permit others the use of the knowledge in their possession for non-commercial purposes. It is further stipulated that any development made using this knowledge licensed under the above obligation should be put back to the realm of "Knowledge Commons", say "Traditional Knowledge Commons", and hence denying the scope of patenting thereof.
The fundamental concept of "Creative Commons" [some rights reserved and not all rights reserved] has been adopted in Kerala IPR Policy to shape the concept of "Commons License", as it moots utilization of the Knowledge for non-commercial purposes. To quote Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, it is "a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past". "Creative Commons" provide free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators to easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. It permits to copy, distribute and transmit the work or to adapt the work only for non-commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work.
Though the concept of "Commons License" envisaged by the Policy is based on the fundamental concept of "Creative Commons" employed by open source advocates, its scope varies significantly from that of "Creative Commons License". This "Commons License" shall not be confused with the seasoned free software concepts (or open source) and "Creative Commons" licenses like GNU GPL, LATEX etc. which mostly applies to "Expressions" protectable under "Copyright". Specific provisions for such "Traditional Knowledge Commons License" will have to be worked out to ensure free, non-commercial reproduction and codification of the Traditional Knowledge. It has to be a kind of "deemed licence" which immediately applies on the user of TK, the moment he decides to employ it for any purpose. The provisions of the deemed license are to be laid down in the legislation to ensure free, non-commercial reproduction and codification of the Traditional Knowledge.
According to the policy document, the custodians/preservers of the TK (viz. tribal community, family etc) will be acknowledged as the right holders, but they are obliged to subject the TK possessed by them for the non-commercial purposes of all. Hence the knowledge is revealed for documentation, and enabling further research thereof. However these right holders can license the TK under their possession to others for commercial purposes on negotiated terms and conditions in accordance with the provisions of "Commons Licence". In respect of such TK, where it is the livelihood of numerous practitioners strewn across Kerala, the State will be deemed to have rights over such Traditional Knowledge. Even though State holds the ownership on such TK, all the actual practitioners of this TK will have an autonomous license for right of commercial use from the State. But these Licensees are not empowered to sub-license this right of commercial use to anybody else, and right for transferring licenses will solely be enjoyed by the State.
Creation of rights and obligations necessitates a Governing Mechanism for acknowledging the right holders, enforcing the rights and recommending legal action against the violators of the rights and "Common License". Therefore the Policy advises to constitute a body called Kerala Traditional Knowledge Authority (KTKA), with which the right holders will have to be registered. KTKA will give general notice to the public, regarding all applications being made to it by practitioners in order to invite Public for bringing to the attention of KTKA, any disputations of applicant's claims or challenges to claims of uniqueness, prevalence of similar practice in more than one location or community etc. After scrutinizing all such cases of disputes and after resolving the issue of ownership/possession, that KTKA would finally register a community/group/individual as "Knowledge Custodian" of such unique set of TK practices.
It is also important that the stake holders be made aware of protecting the rights conferred to them from potential usurpation. Therefore all such stake holders would be advised to join together and form "Knowledge Societies". 'Traditional Knowledge Users' Co-operatives" also will be encouraged in the legislation
Though the Policy envisages putting the developments made on TK back to the realm of "Knowledge Commons", path breaking inventions like development of a new drug molecule or the process thereof which involves substantial developmental cost need not form part of the "Knowledge Commons" in the strict sense even if TK may form the basis of its origin. The ultimate aim of the legislation is not to protect the financial interests of the TK holders, but the benefit of the Society at large, as in the case of the fundamental concept of PATENTS. Patents bestow monetary reward for revealing technological innovation along with accolades for the inventor. Grant of patent for inventions attracts investment because the commercial exploitation of the invention is possible to its fullest extent during the term of patent. The policy does not support extending "trade secret" protection to TK and the State is totally against creation of monopoly over knowledge. Hence Kerala IPR Policy envisages the ways and means for revealing TK for the greater benefit of Society.
Constitutional sanctity of the proposed legislation
While there is no bar on Kerala State in having a policy on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to proclaim its stand with respect to its culture, geography, people, Biodiversity etc., constitutional sanctity of a legislation based on the Policy is debatable as IPR is a union subject. However it is imperative that we have to find ways and means to get around this constitutional law bottle neck and to push this legislation through. I have the following arguments regarding the constitutional sanctity of the proposed legislation
1) The words like "Traditional Knowledge", "Intellectual Property", "Biodiversity" etc. did not find specific mention anywhere under Union list, and the Entry 49 is limited to: "Patents, inventions and designs; copyright; trade-marks and merchandise marks" [The application of 'pith and marrow' rule may limit this scope].
2) The ownership of TK may be attributed to the State/Crown, given the fact that TK is an accumulated traditional wealth and the long kept preserve of its practitioners, tribal communities and families, wherein all of them act as deemed "trustees" of the State/Crown. So Traditional Knowledge is very well a "treasure trove" (Item No. 44 of State list), where the State has power to legislate.
3) Item No. 26 of State List can be used to regulate Trading of "Knowledge". Item No. 64 provides for enforcement of punitive mechanisms.
4) Item No. 7 (Contracts) of Concurrent list and Item No. 6 (Transfer of Property) also is relevant.
5) Article 300A covers intellectual property also. Article 304(b) and Article 19(6) gives added advantage to treat TK as a Property and hence regulate its Trading
6) The proposed legislation does not intend to touch the patent Act at all, it being a Union Subject. But a few provisions in Biodiversity Act (made using the residual powers of Central Government) needs to be supplemented with additional provisions, but employing the provisions of Articles 258A and 258 (2).
7) There is support of State directives under Article 38, 39 (b) and 39(c)
8) Above all, the proposed legislation is 'not exactly for creating rights on TK', but for assigning those rights to those "deemed trustees", in return of their willingness to put the TK to the realm of "Knowledge Commons"


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Activist Devotes herself to Closing School of the Americas and to Aiding Victims of Colombia's Drug War
by Anne C. Paine In its September/October 2001 issue, Mother Jones magazine tagged Oberlin one of the top 10 activist schools in the nation. The article cited Oberlin's strong participation - 110 students - at the November 2000 rally to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Senior Jackie Downing is one of the powerhouses behind that presence. The annual protest is held each November at the school, which was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in May 2000. The national organization SOA Watch charges that many of the soldiers trained at the school have committed atrocities against thousands of civilians and human-rights workers in South America.
A slight woman with long, straight dark hair and bright blue eyes that flash with intensity, Downing (along with Laurel Paget- Seekins '01) revived the dormant Oberlin Peace Activists League, a campus organization whose primary focus is closing the SOA. She's also a member of the SOA Watch national steering committee and an active educator in methods of nonviolent protest.
"Yes, this is scary, but it's right. The good that comes out of our presence outweighs the fear." Jackie Downing
For her efforts, she was one of just six students in the nation given the Howard R. Swearer Humanitarian Award by Campus Compact last year. The award carries a $1,500 prize.
Her efforts have also led to two arrests.
The first came at the November 1999 SOA Watch protest, where Downing "crossed the line" onto the army base and portrayed a victim of SOA violence by wearing a white death mask and carrying a coffin.
The second arrest - for a nonviolent action at a Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation conference in Washington, D.C., in April 2001 - brought a conviction for unlawful entry and a $75 fine. Downing and five other Oberlin students had snuck into the conference room and chained themselves to a pillar. They were protesting Sikorsky's profits from the sale of Black Hawk helicopters to the U.S. government for use in the drug war in Colombia. In their trial, the students defended themselves and argued that U.S. tax dollars should be spent on drug treatment, not on enriching private corporations.
Downing is a committed activist, but she doesn't jump on bandwagons. She always does her homework.
"Early in my freshman year, I saw a documentary on the School of the Americas, and simultaneously had to choose a topic for a paper in a sociology class. After learning what I did, I had to get involved," she said.
Downing's work with SOA Watch inevitably led her to oppose U.S. involvement in the Colombian drug war. According to SOA Watch, Colombia has more SOA graduates (10,000) than any other country.
"I really wanted to direct my energies to something that is still going on, rather than just focusing on past massacres," Downing said. "With Colombia, we have a chance to educate people and stop people dying right now."
Again, Downing did her research, this time by traveling twice to Colombia, the third-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid.
During her first trip, in January 2001, she traveled with the Colombia Support Network and photographed the effects of the drug war and its aerial fumigation of coca plants on families and communities in the state of Putumayo. Upon her return, she met with congressional representatives from Ohio and Michigan to lobby for an end to the spraying.
Downing also spent four weeks last summer traveling with the International Caravan for Life in the state of South Bolivar. The group worked to draw international attention to the humanitarian crisis while distributing food, medical supplies, and school supplies to devastated communities.
Colombia is a major exporter of coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived. For nearly 40 years, the country has been gripped by a civil conflict involving leftist rebels, state troops, and right-wing paramilitary groups. In May 2000, the U.S. Congress passed the Clinton administration's $1.3 billion counter-narcotics package to support the war against drugs. A major component of the package, known as Plan Colombia, is the aerial fumigation of coca plants.
"The problem with fumigation is that most of the small farmers mix the coca plants in with their food crops," Downing said. "The coca plants are resistant to the fumigation, while the food plants are not. So people are starving. Farmers are desperate, so they grow small amounts of coca just to support their families. The sad thing is that the people we met don't even want to grow coca. They'd gladly grow anything else if there were roads to get other crops to market," she said.
A number of independent observers and human-rights organizations, as well as members of the U.S. Congress, have come to similar conclusions. Last July, the United Nations called for an independent audit on the spraying operations.
Though Downing rarely speaks about it, her commitments have put her in very dangerous situations. She strives to conquer her own fear and be optimistic.
"I try not to get bogged down in the details. Yes, this is scary, but it's right. The good that comes out of our presence outweighs the fear," Downing said. She'll be in Colombia again this January, leading a student delegation on a trip cosponsored by Witness for Peace and SOA Watch.
She has her work cut out for her. In his 2002 budget, President George Bush proposed the Andean Regional Initiative, a major expansion of Plan Colombia; the legislation is working its way through Congress with barely a notice in the American press.
For more information, see the web sites of SOA Watch or the Colombia Support Network.
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