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The Waitangi Tribunal and the Maori Claim to their Cultural and Intellectual Heritage Rights Property

Over the past two decades or so, the Western intellectual property rights (IPR) legal system has increasingly found itself on a collision course with the cultural and intellectual heritage rights system of indigenous and traditional peoples the world over. The two systems have inherent philosophical conflicts. The IPR system is concerned with private economic rights whilst those of indigenous peoples are collectively based and consider obligations to and respect for natural resources as important as the right to use these resources.

From Hall of Worship to Tourist Center: An Ancestral Hall in Hong Kong's New Territories

From Hall of Worship to Tourist Center: An Ancestral Hall in Hong Kong's. New Territories

This Year, 1997, is Heritage Year in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Tourist Association decided that this particular year was an excellent time to launch a new set of day tours highlighting temples, ancestral halls, shrines, and "traditional Chinese" buildings located in remote corners of the colony.

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