Tribes To WIPO — Long-Term Protection For Traditional Knowledge Needed 02/07/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and are not associated with Intellectual Property Watch. IP-Watch expressly disclaims and refuses any responsibility or liability for the content, style or form of any posts made to this forum, which remain solely the responsibility of their authors. If there is trouble seeing the video, let us know by emailing kmara@ip-watch.ch. Terry Williams is a member of the Tulalip Tribes, an indigenous tribe recognised by the federal government of the United States and based in Washington state. In an interview with Intellectual Property Watch alongside a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting, he talks about what the Tulalip Tribes are hoping for from the United States and the international institutions, and about what the US government wants from the Tulalip Tribes’ knowledge of the land, as they may seek it for purposes like combatting climate change. In the clip below, Williams talks about what kind of protection is sought from WIPO and from the intellectual property system in general. This does not involve, he says, taking anything away from the current system but adding to it, in order to achieve “long-term protection of tribal art, music, dance, and things like that.” In the next clip below, he speaks about traditional knowledge and climate change. The Tulalip people have lived on the land since the glaciers melted, said Williams. “We were there when the forests began, and we’re there now, and we watched them rise and fall, and we know what the issues are and we how to fix them,” he said. Over the last 20 years, the US government has been realising the value of this knowledge, and is now “asking us to join their leadership on how to make a recovery.” Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related "Tribes To WIPO — Long-Term Protection For Traditional Knowledge Needed" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
[…] … Read the IP Watch reports on the meeting of 30 June, 3 July, and 6 June 2009 … Watch a video interview with Terry Williams of the Tulalip Tribes … Read a TK Community post, 1 July 2009 … Download the Indigenous Consultative Forum opening […] Reply