PIJIP released the Cradle Principles on Knowledge Governance at the 50th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) of the World Intellectual Property Organization. The Cradle Principles were drafted at a retreat hosted by PIJIP with copyright academics, stakeholders and computational researchers last year. The retreat addressed the goals of enabling African and other Global South uses of digital research tools without promoting “data colonialism” concerns. The Principles include considerations to help determine when knowledge should be subject to more protection to safeguard the rights of traditional cultures and when knowledge should be more freely available for research, education and other public interest uses. The IGC is currently negotiating a treaty on the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. Although the principles do not contain any specific language for the IGC’s work, they may be useful in identifying options and considerations for balancing important public interests in the negotiation, including for the crafting of limitations and exceptions to any exclusive rights that may be included in a final treaty.