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Natures Sciences Sociétés
Volume 17, Number 3, Juillet-Septembre 2009
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Page(s) | 266 - 270 | |
Section | Forum | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2009042 | |
Published online | 07 October 2009 |
Ressources génétiques : au-delà du débat sur la brevetabilité
Genetic resources: beyond the life patenting debate
Chargée de mission, Fondation française pour la recherche sur
la biodiversité, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 41, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
Auteur de correspondance : Andree.Sontot@agroparistech.fr
La diversité génétique est généralement perçue comme un stock minier de connaissances, gènes ou caractères dont l'exploitation doit contribuer à la conservation de la biodiversité. Le débat sur le vivant s'est donc largement focalisé ces dernières années sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle. Pourtant, la gestion des ressources génétiques nécessite une imagination juridique qui considère ensemble leurs dimensions environnementales, agricoles, industrielles, culturelles et sociales, à la lumière des nouveaux développements scientifiques.
Abstract
Genetic diversity is generally considered as a mining stock of information, genes or traits whose exploitation should contribute to the conservation of biodiversity. These last years, the debate on its legal status focused on intellectual property rights and the “patenting of life”, corresponding to a dominant mechanist representation of life. However, intellectual property rights, as well as other areas of law, have already demonstrated their ability to combine individual and collective rights and duties. The diversity of law should be further explored, as the management of genetic resources calls for legal imagination to address together their environmental, agricultural, industrial and social dimensions and to draw up balanced solutions to social and economical controversies. This broadening of perspective is of particular importance in light of recent scientific developments and of the resulting evolution of our vision of life.
Mots clés : statut du vivant / ressources génétiques / droit / approche transsectorielle / local à international
Key words: status of life / genetic resources / law / trans-sectoral approach / local to global
© NSS Dialogues, EDP Sciences, 2009
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