[OpenGLAM] Fwd: [MCN-L] Te Papa releases over 30000 images for free in high resolution

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Wed Jun 4 05:46:00 UTC 2014


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Matt McGregor:
> 
> For those who want more context, I've thrown in some paragraphs
> from an off-line publication from our Ministry of Social
> Development:
> 
> "For many years indigenous and local communities have raised
> concerns about misuse and misappropriation of traditional knowledge
> in general, and particularly the interaction of traditional
> knowledge with intellectual property (IP) regimes.
> 
> Maori have raised similar concerns in the Waitangi Tribunal, as
> well as internationally through bodies such as World Intellectual
> Property Organization (WIPO).
> 
> These concerns can be considered from two perspectives:
>> The inability of conventional IP rights systems to both provide
>> adequate
> protection for traditional knowledge, or to limit the use of 
> traditional knowledge to the appropriate holders of that knowledge
> only.
>> The acquisition by parties other than traditional knowledge
>> holders of IP rights
> over traditional knowledge-based creations and innovations.
> 
> Some of the aspirations expressed by indigenous people and
> communities for the protection of cultural and spiritual taonga may
> not be compatible with the objectives and purposes of IP
> legislation. For example IP rights are usually limited in duration
> and involve disclosure to the public and the eventual contribution 
> to the public domain. There are clearly limits in the extent to
> which protection which might be considered to meet the needs of
> indigenous communities, including Maori communities, can be
> achieved within an IP framework.
> 
> Other examples of the diverging expectations, in terms of what an 
> effective level of protection might include, relate to the
> requirement of “originality” and the requirement to identify an
> individual (or commercial entity) as the author/creator of a work
> or innovation and vest IP rights in them. By contrast, the rights
> that indigenous people often assert may be collective, rather than 
> individual, in nature with traditional knowledge and traditional
> knowledge-based innovations and practices possibly being developed
> incrementally over several generations."

Thank you for this, it's good to see a concrete example of these
issues being considered and balanced.

- - Rob.
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