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Re: Cultures, words, meanings and ownership (was Was Re: "piffle!" (bowdlerised for your protection)
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:01:30 GMT
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> John's right, this IS debate fodder. He should have set XFUT, but I will.
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> XFUT o-t.debate and let's keep it out of other groups if it veers into the
> subject areas... that would be my strong preference and I suspect many
> others as well.
reposting my debatable comments
> In lugnet.technic.bionicle, John Neal writes:
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> > , yet, when a company, like
> > > Lego decides to rip-off names from another culture, words that have deep
> > > religous meaning to them, you think they are the ones that are wrong. Well,
> >
> > As many are pointing out elsewhere in this thread, it is absurd to believe that
> > a "culture" "owns" anything. What a load of hooey!
Why is it more absurd than a corporation's claim to a trademark? Note that
the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) http://www.govt.nz/aboutnz/treaty.php3
explicitly acknowledges Maori entitlement to cultural heritage, which
includes their language.
http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/waitangi/reports/wai11.html
If LEGO can acknowledge the importance of cultural sensitivity, why is it a
problem for so many AFOLs (one or two in particular)?
> > > I say shame on Lego, first to use the names and then to deny where they
> > > originated, saying they made them up. You should really be saying, shame on
> > > Lego. Here, I thought they came up with all this stuff on their own to find
> > > out they plagiarized it all. Just like you can't copy someone else's work
> > > in school, the business world is just the same.
> >
> > Except that this "culture" who thinks they have a case mostly certainly isn't a
> > *business*.
Why should corporations be privileged over other cultural groups with a
distinct identity?
--DaveL
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