The TKDL is a big database that translates our traditional medicines into other languages, so foreign companies can't claim them as new patents. But protection? It feels like locking up our grandmothers' recipes in a government vault while the real keepers of the knowledge get nothing. I know, because I've seen it—I helped document some local plant uses for a project, and all we got was a thank you. Our family's terracotta designs could be the next thing taken, "protected" somewhere, while our studio still struggles to pay the bills.
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