The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has been covered on this site several times in the past. An article about attempts to change the plain language of NAGPRA was covered, as well as the Society for American Archaeology’s stance on unidentified human remains. In fact, in a new book that just came […]
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Alaska Indigenous Tribes Gets Ancestors Back
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Tags: NAGPRA · skeletons · Native Americans · indigenous+peoples · archaeology · legal
Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples
June 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Over the last few decades a steady increase in intellectual property law has occurred. Patent subject matter has been extended to every field of endeavor, including patents now issued on subject matter once thought unpatentable: new life forms, business methods, software, and traditional ecological knowledge, to name a few. Copyright’s reach has similarly broadened to […]
Tags: intellectual property · indigenous+peoples · legal · law