Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Annex 1C of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organisation signed in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 15 April 1994. Came into effect 1 January 1995.
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‘Intellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders’ (2001), World Intellectual Property Organisation (‘WIPO’) Report on Fact-Finding Missions on Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge (1998–1999), Geneva, Part 1 at 33.
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For example, the Copyright Act1956 (United Kingdom) s 1 states citizenship or residence requirements of ‘protected persons’.
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This was formulated as a result of a regional symposium in New Caledonia in 1999. The Model Law was reviewed and finalised at a meeting, jointly organised by the South Pacific Commission, Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and UNESCO, before being endorsed by the First Conference of Ministers of Culture of the Pacific Region at SPC in 2002.
For example, Kabushika Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment v Stevens [2003] FCAFC 157.
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Land-diving is a ritual act from Pentecost Island in which young men leap from tall wooden towers with their feet bound by a length of vine to celebrate the yam harvest. The case arose because a renegade group had tried to ‘export’ the jump from its usual place of performance in order to make money out of it from tourists. The Western imitation is ‘bungee jumping’.
