Nike ditches shoe design after Panama’s indigenous Guna protest 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseUS sportswear giant Nike said Tuesday it was withdrawing its latest shoe after Panama’s indigenous Guna community accused it of “pirating” a protected traditional design. Lawyers for the Guna said the special-edition Air Force 1 model shoe sports a traditional “mola” design without their permission, flouting their intellectual property rights. There are “more and more cases” worldwide in which indigenous people are reporting theft of their intellectual property by designers or large companies, Martinez said. “The interesting thing here is that there are debates in the World Intellectual Property Organization and there are demands from indigenous peoples that something has to be done.

Source: Manila Bulletin May 22, 2019 03:21 UTC