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| The International Journal of Cultural Property is now regularly carrying articles on indigenous IPR and is actively seeking innovative submissions on this and related topics. For additional information, browse the website of the International Cultural Property Society. |
| Additional publications by Michael F. Brown, Williams College, on indigenous rights and heritage protection, most available for full-text download. |
 RSS feed for Who Owns Native Culture? website. |
| Some blogs to track if you're interested in indigenous IPR, heritage protection, and questions of open access: SavageMinds, the Museum Anthropology blog, Material World, Culture Matters, and Kimberly Christen's In Transition. You might also want to check the web page of a project at Simon Fraser University in BC, Canada, called "Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage." Likewise the website of the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation. Another useful and sometimes amusing blog site to check out is Native Appropriations. |
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News, Stories, Documents |
Lots of new books on various facets of cultural property:
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| Just out in Current Anthropology: Jaume Franquesa, "On Keeping and Selling: The Political Economy of Heritage Making in Contemporary Spain." Abstract. Posted here 15 May 2013. |
| "Maasai the Brand." An interview with Ron Layton, CEO of a non-profit that helps indigenous communities protect the commercial value of their identity. (Includes audio.) The World, 10 May 2013. |
| The European Union is debating a proposed law that would protect indigenous communities from bioprospecting abuse. The Guardian, UK, 1 May 2013. |
| Funding for WIPO's indigenous IP initiative is running out. 26 April 2013 |
Hopi Tribe tries to stop auction of 70 sacred masks in France. New York Times, 3 April 2013.
Auction site here.
Update, 12 April: Hopi efforts to stop the sale failed. The items were auctioned for more than US$ 1 million. |
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| A kerfluffle in Fiji about traditional decorated bark design appropriated by Air Pacific, from the IPinCH website, 18 February 2013, posted here 28 March 2013 |
| Another IP-gets-weird story: Who owns Sherlock Holmes? "Suit Says Sherlock Belongs to the Ages," NYT, 6 March 2013, posted here 28 March 2013. |
| "Australian law relating to communal indigenous intellectual property," by Francis A. Lightowlers and Jenni Lightowlers, Lexology, 12 February 2013. |
| David J. Kevles, "Can They Patent Your Genes?" NYRB, 7 March 2013. |
Just out:
Heritage Regimes and the State, edited by Regina Bendix, Aditya Eggert, and Arnika Peselmann.
The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali, by Charlotte Joy. |
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In the NY Times, Hugh Eakin asks tough questions about the current passion for repatriating (mostly European) art objects. 26 January 2013. |
| From IP Watch: "Indigenous Peoples Rights’ Reaffirmed By UN Rapporteur, Panellists, At WIPO." 5 February 2013. |
| Heritage gets complicated: First Nations Families in British Columbia dispute sale of masks by a family member. 20 January 2013. |
| High Country News ran a story on efforts to protect landscape and other dimensions of cultural property at Acoma Pueblo, NM. January 2013. |
| "Why the Chicken McNugget is a Great Argument Against Strong Patent Laws." The Atlantic, 10 January 2013. |
| NOT TO BE MISSED! The latest issue of the IJCP (vol 19, no 3.) contains eight terrific articles under the thematic rubric of "Intangible Property at the Periphery: Expanding Enclosure in the 21st Century." The special issue, edited by Murphy Halliburton, includes essays by (among others) Bronwyn Parry, Lorraine V. Aragon, Kate Hennessy, Krishna Ravi Srinivas, and John Collins. (Full table of contents.) This is behind a paywall, unfortunately, but your library may have download rights. 2 January 2013. |
| Who owns the name "Amazon"? "Domain Wars: South America vs. Amazon.com." Global Post, 29 November 2012. |
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Many more archived stories about recent developments in Indigenous IP, 2003-2006, 2007- |
