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Steering Committee Gathers to Plan Final Years of the Project

Coast Salish Elder, Florence James, with IPinCH Student Rep Robin Gray. James provided the Steering Committee group with some historical and cultural background about the island where they recently held their annual retreat. (photo: K. Bannister) More > 

IPinCH at the Stó:lo People of the River Conference

Sue Rowley and Sarah Carr-Locke at the IPinCH table. IPinCH organized both a community-based cultural tourism workshop and a panel of speakers at the People of the River Conference at the end of May 2013. More >

Appropriation (?) of the Month: Who is that Masked Man?

IPinCH Fellow Nicole Aylwin breaks down the controversy surrounding Johnny Depp’s new (and improved?) Tonto.  More > 

Coming Soon! Videos from the Cultural Commodification Public Symposium

In May 2013, IPinCH Fellow Solen Roth organized an international public symposium that brought together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to address the complex nature of cultural commodification. Videos from the event are coming soon! More >

IPinCH connecting with San Heritage in Botswana

In Botswana, IPinCH ethnographer Alexis Bunten attended a San heritage festival where community members from Dobe celebrated and shared their traditions with visitors (A. Bunten photo, used with permission of Dobe dance troupe).

Me Rongo Congress Proceedings Now Available!

In 2011, the Hokotehi Moriori Trust of New Zealand organized the Me Rongo Congress, which included lectures on subjects such as consensus decision-making and reconciliation, and workshops on bone carving, weaving, and clay art. The full Congress Proceedings are now available. More > 

Welcome

Welcome to the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage home page. This project represents an international, interdisciplinary collaboration among more than 50 scholars and 25 partnering organizations embarking on an unprecedented and timely investigation of intellectual property (IP) issues in cultural heritage that represent emergent local and global interpretations of culture, rights, and knowledge. Our objectives are:

  • to document the diversity of principles, interpretations, and actions arising in response to IP issues in cultural heritage worldwide;
  • to analyze the many implications of these situations;
  • to generate more robust theoretical understandings as well as exemplars of good practice; and
  • to make these findings available to stakeholders—from Aboriginal communities to professional organizations to government agencies—to develop and refine their own theories, principles, policies and practices.

We invite you to explore our website and to keep track of this project as it develops.

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