Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 23, 2019 16:52:59 GMT 12
SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT ON PARIHAKA BILL BACKS NAME PROTECTION
If a new bill passes into law, the people of Parihaka will get the means to protect its name from commercial exploitation.
One of the changes the Māori Affairs select committee had recommended regarding the Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka/Parihaka Reconciliation Bill was a clause to prevent the name of the settlement synonymous with peace from being used in the registration of trademarks, company names or other trade without the authorisation of the Parihaka Papakainga Trust (PPT).
If there was unauthorised, commercial use of the Parihaka name, the trust would have the ability to seek a court order to stop it.......
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/114425668/select-committee-report-on-parihaka-bill-backs-name-protection
If a new bill passes into law, the people of Parihaka will get the means to protect its name from commercial exploitation.
One of the changes the Māori Affairs select committee had recommended regarding the Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka/Parihaka Reconciliation Bill was a clause to prevent the name of the settlement synonymous with peace from being used in the registration of trademarks, company names or other trade without the authorisation of the Parihaka Papakainga Trust (PPT).
If there was unauthorised, commercial use of the Parihaka name, the trust would have the ability to seek a court order to stop it.......
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/114425668/select-committee-report-on-parihaka-bill-backs-name-protection