The Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights On Local-Wisdom Based Crafts In A Tourism Village In Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia

摘要

Cirebon is one of the regions that have historical and cultural lushness so that it has a huge amount of tangible and intangible local wisdom. In its development, some regions are developing their regions as the tourism villages with the main commodity of handicrafts deriving from their own cultures. That local wisdom-based village is Sitiwinangun Village with its earthenware crafts. This potential needs the protection of Intellectual Property Rights to strengthen their existence mainly in the ASEAN Economic Community. This research discusses the protection of Intellectual property rights of handicrafts in the tourism village, the implementation of government, and factors supporting the Intellectual Property Rights in the tourism village in Cirebon. The research method uses the empirical juridical one. The outcome of this research shows that Local Government has not given the intellectual property rights to the local crafters. The protection effort is made by the initiative of the community through the stakeholders. Limited knowledge of the community on the Intellectual Property Rights does not make them protect their work and they consider the intellectual property rights an expensive process. Moreover, they disregard if other people take their models and designs. They need legal guidance from government, stakeholders, and public education from universities in Cirebon.