Pacific Island countries are examples of small island developing states which face internal and external pressures to develop their economies through trade and investment in a global market. Integral to this is compliance with legal regimes often not of their own making. Among these are laws relating to intellectual property, which are imposed both by bilateral and multilateral Free Trade Agreements and by discourses of development. Against the local, regional, and international context, this book takes into account the importance of culture to indigenous societies, the social relevance of...