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    Well, I guess I was wrong. There is such a thing as Cultural Intellectual Property. Here is a story from Ghana how it's being implemented there.
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    Re: Cultural copyrights run amok

    Is that anything like the controversy a few years ago about Lego using Maori names and words in their Bionicle toy line?

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      Re: Cultural copyrights run amok

      Originally posted by DaveNSoKona
      Well, I guess I was wrong. There is such a thing as Cultural Intellectual Property. Here is a story from Ghana how it's being implemented there.
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      wow. cool. mahalos for finding that, Dave!

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        Re: Cultural copyrights run amok

        Originally posted by Glen Miyashiro
        Is that anything like the controversy a few years ago about Lego using Maori names and words in their Bionicle toy line?
        sumpin li dat.

        http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,..._story_related


        it's very creative, but why don't they just fabricate their own names and words so it's all their very own?!

        I see they use Hawaiian words.
        Last edited by kimo55; April 21, 2005, 08:43 PM.

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