Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is sponsoring a visiting scholar from Norway who is researching indigenous intellectual property rights. Jacob Adams is a Ph.D. student in law and on the law faculty ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture on preliminary findings stemming from research on indigenous intellectual property rights by a visiting scholar from Norway. In his talk, The ...

This isn’t just about turmeric, though, nor is this type of cultural property theft limited to international appropriation. Thirteen years after becoming a state, New Mexico adopted a new state flag; ...

Late Wednesday afternoon, the Amherst College political science department hosted indigenous Guatemalan activist and lawyer, Angelina Aspuac, who spoke about the movement working to secure ...

'As long as the grass grows': representing indigenous claims / Tressa Berman -- Digital vibes and radio waves in indigenous Peru / Bartholomew Dean -- Intellectual property protection and the market ...

On December 10 2014, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), in cooperation with the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP), posted a notice on its website asking for ...

A website selling moccasins with what looks like Haudenosaunee-style beadwork but with no attribution to an artist or community has sparked conversation online about how to identify authentic ...

Almost 30 years ago, in 1995, two researchers from the University of Mississippi were granted a patent for “the use of turmeric for wound healing.” At that time, turmeric was not known in the U.S. for ...