WIPO and Traditional Knowledge

WIPO held a meeting from 3-12 July 2007 on the protection of traditional knowledge. Here is a link to the meeting document"The Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Revised Objectives and Principles"

In Amazonia, Defending the Hidden Tribes

By Monte Reel

Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, July 8, 2007; Page A01

COLIDER, Brazil -- At first, few believed the story that two brothers told about four unknown Indians who suddenly appeared to them one afternoon on the outskirts of their village.

Like most Kayapo Indians, the brothers -- named Bepro and Beprytire -- live in a government-demarcated reserve, wear modern clothing and get energy from solar-powered generators. But the four unclothed visitors were a different kind of Kayapo.

They spoke in an antiquated tongue that seemed a precursor to the language spoken in the village, located in the Capoto-Jarina Indian Reserve in central Brazil. The four men had come from a tribe that had remained in the forest, the brothers said, untouched by the modern world.

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