Linda Frye Burnham / 01:56 PM
Forwarded from AftA's Cultural Policy Listserv:
UN to help indigenous communities to preserve cultural heritage
China View - Xinhua, 5/21/2008
"The United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Tuesday launched a program to help indigenous communities to manage their intellectual property. The Maasai community of Laikipia in Kenya will be the first to benefit from the program. . . . 'Our goal is to empower tradition-bearers to preserve and pass on their own traditional cultures if they wish to do so while safeguarding their intellectual property rights and interests,' said Francis Gurry, Deputy Director General of WIPO. New technologies will provide communities with fresh opportunities to document and digitize expressions of their traditional culture, said the official."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/21/content_8219484.htm
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